Vulnerability CVE-2024-38562
Published: 2024-06-19

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: nl80211: Avoid address calculations via out of bounds array indexing

Before request->channels[] can be used, request->n_channels must be set.
Additionally, address calculations for memory after the "channels" array
need to be calculated from the allocation base ("request") rather than
via the first "out of bounds" index of "channels", otherwise run-time
bounds checking will throw a warning.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed74398642fcb19f6ff385c35a7d512c6663e17b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e2a5566462b53db7d4c4722da86eedf0b8f546c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fa4d56564ee7cc2ee348258d88efe191d70dd7f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/838c7b8f1f278404d9d684c34a8cb26dc41aaaa1
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