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Linux Linux — wifi: nl80211: fix NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINK_ID off-by-one
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U H N H 7.1 .0023 13.9 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 7b0a0e3c3a88260b6fcb017e49f198463aa62ed1 – —
Linux 6.0 – 6.1.121
TIMELINE
Dec 27 Reserved by Linux
Dec 27 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2024-56663 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 7.1 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: nl80211: fix NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINK_ID off-by-one
Since the netlink attribute range validation provides inclusive
checking, the *max* of attribute NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINK_ID should be
IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS - 1 otherwise causing an off-by-one.
One crash stack for demonstration:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: wild-memory-access in ieee80211_tx_control_port+0x3b6/0xca0 net/mac80211/tx.c:5939
Read of size 6 at addr 001102080000000c by task fuzzer.386/9508
CPU: 1 PID: 9508 Comm: syz.1.386 Not tainted 6.1.70 #2
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x177/0x231 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_report+0xe0/0x750 mm/kasan/report.c:398
kasan_report+0x139/0x170 mm/kasan/report.c:495
kasan_check_range+0x287/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
memcpy+0x25/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:65
ieee80211_tx_control_port+0x3b6/0xca0 net/mac80211/tx.c:5939
rdev_tx_control_port net/wireless/rdev-ops.h:761 [inline]
nl80211_tx_control_port+0x7b3/0xc40 net/wireless/nl80211.c:15453
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22e/0x320 net/netlink/genetlink.c:756
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:833 [inline]
genl_rcv_msg+0x539/0x740 net/netlink/genetlink.c:850
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1de/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2508
genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:861
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1326 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x74b/0x8c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1352
netlink_sendmsg+0x882/0xb90 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1874
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:716 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:728 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x5cc/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2499
___sys_sendmsg+0x21c/0x290 net/socket.c:2553
__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2582 [inline]
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2591 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg+0x19e/0x270 net/socket.c:2589
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x45/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Update the policy to ensure correct validation.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| December 27, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| December 27, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2024-56663 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 7.1 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 7b0a0e3c3a88260b6fcb017e49f198463aa62ed1 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.0 | 6.1.121 |
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