CVE-2024-49938

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9khtc: Use skbsetlength for resetting urb before resubmit Syzbot points out that skbtrim has a sanity check on the existing length of the skb, which can be uninitialised in some error paths. The intent here is clearly ju...

CVE-2024-49938 wifi: ath9k_htc: Use __skb_set_length() for resetting urb before resubmit

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9khtc: Use skbsetlength for resetting urb before resubmit Syzbot points out that skbtrim has a sanity check on the existing length of the skb, which can be uninitialised in some error paths. The intent here is clearly ju...

CVE-2024-49938 wifi: ath9k_htc: Use __skb_set_length() for resetting urb before resubmit

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9khtc: Use skbsetlength for resetting urb before resubmit Syzbot points out that skbtrim has a sanity check on the existing length of the skb, which can be uninitialised in some error paths. The intent here is clearly ju...

CVE-2024-49938

Linux kernel CVE-2024-49938 affects the ath9k_htc wifi driver. The issue arises from skb_trim() being used on an uninitialised skb length in error paths, leading to an invalid urb reset before resubmission. The patch switches to __skb_set_length(skb, 0) (which already calls skb_reset_tail_pointer...