CVE-2024-36941 wifi: nl80211: don't free NULL coalescing rule

2024-05-3015:29:28

Linux

www.cve.org

linux kernel

wifi

parsing

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.2%

JSON

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

wifi: nl80211: don’t free NULL coalescing rule

If the parsing fails, we can dereference a NULL pointer here.

CNA Affected

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