- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.22%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 87% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: handle 2x996 RU allocation in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he() Currently NL80211_RATE_INFO_HE_RU_ALLOC_2x996 is not handled in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he(), leading to below warning: kernel: invalid HE MCS: bw:6, ru:6 kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2312 at net/wireless/util.c:1501 cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he+0x22b/0x270 [cfg80211] Fix it by handling 2x996 RU allocation in the same way as 160 MHz bandwidth.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.22% · top 87% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f – < 45d20a1c54be4f3173862c7b950d4468447814c9
- affected c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f – < b289ebb0516526cb4abae081b7ec29fd4fa1209d
- affected c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f – < 2e201b3d162c6c49417c438ffb30b58c9f85769f
- affected c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f – < 576c64622649f3ec07e97bac8fec8b8a2ef4d086
- affected c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f – < 16ad67e73309db0c20cc2a651992bd01c05e6b27
- affected c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f – < 67b5f1054197e4f5553047759c15c1d67d4c8142
- affected c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f – < 19eaf4f2f5a981f55a265242ada2bf92b0c742dd
- affected c4cbaf7973a794839af080f13748335976cf3f3f – < bcbd771cd5d68c0c52567556097d75f9fc4e7cd6
- affected 4.19
- unaffected < 4.19
- unaffected 4.19.320 – ≤ 4.19.*
- unaffected 5.4.282 – ≤ 5.4.*
- unaffected 5.10.224 – ≤ 5.10.*
- unaffected 5.15.165 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 6.1.103 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.44 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.10.3 – ≤ 6.10.*
- unaffected 6.11 – ≤ *
References
References12
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45d20a1c54be4f3173862c7b950d4468447814c9 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b289ebb0516526cb4abae081b7ec29fd4fa1209d (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e201b3d162c6c49417c438ffb30b58c9f85769f (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/576c64622649f3ec07e97bac8fec8b8a2ef4d086 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16ad67e73309db0c20cc2a651992bd01c05e6b27 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67b5f1054197e4f5553047759c15c1d67d4c8142 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19eaf4f2f5a981f55a265242ada2bf92b0c742dd (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcbd771cd5d68c0c52567556097d75f9fc4e7cd6 (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-355557.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-40529 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-43879)Record last updated .