CVE-2024-57989

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.5 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Feb 27, 2025

Updated: Mar 7, 2025

CWE ID 476

Summary

CVE-2024-57989: A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's wifi driver for MT76 and MT7925 chips. In the function "mt7925_change_vif_links," the return value of devm_kzalloc() may be NULL, but this potential issue goes unchecked. This could result in a NULL pointer dereference and potential kernel crash or even code execution with escalated privileges. The vulnerability has been addressed in recent Linux kernel releases.

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Linux Kernel

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LINUX

Advisories, Assessments, and Mitigations

https://app.recordedfuture.com/live/sc/entity/3xkl-k
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57989
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57989

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