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Vulnerability · Published Jan 11, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-48873wifi: rtw89: check return value of ieee80211_probereq_get() for RNR

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity null pointer dereference in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 13% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 86.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: check return value of ieee80211_probereq_get() for RNR The return value of ieee80211_probereq_get() might be NULL, so check it before using to avoid NULL pointer access. Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1529805 ("Dereference null return value")

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:13linux6.12.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48873
Debian:14linux6.12.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-58.60UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-58.60USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1027.29UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1027.29USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1027.29~22.04.1USN-7451-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1027.29~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1027.32USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1027.32UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.116.11.0-1012.12~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1027.32~22.04.1USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1027.32~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia6.8.0-1014.15UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1028.30USN-7450-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1028.30UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.116.11.0-1011.11~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1028.30~22.04.1USN-7452-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1028.30~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1023.27UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1023.27USN-7450-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1010.12USN-7450-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1010.12UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.116.11.0-21.21~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.116.11.0-21.21~24.04.1USN-7379-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-58.60~22.04.1USN-7449-2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-58.60~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1024.24UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1024.24USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1024.24~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-58.60.1USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-58.60.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.116.11.0-1011.12~24.04.1USN-7381-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-58.60.1~22.04.1USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-58.60.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1026.29UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1026.29USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.116.11.0-1007.7UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1026.29~22.04.1USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1026.29~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1026.29.1USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1026.29.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1008.8UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.116.11.0-1017.17UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.116.11.0-1017.17USN-7382-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1026.26USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1026.26UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1024.25USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1024.25UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1024.25~22.04.1USN-7449-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1024.25~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1028.32USN-7524-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1028.32UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv6.8.0-58.60.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-58.60.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1017.18UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48873

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux c6aa9a9c47252ac7b07ed6d10459027e2f2a2de0 – before 1a0f54cb3fea5d087440b2bae03202c445156a8dc6aa9a9c47252ac7b07ed6d10459027e2f2a2de0 – before 7296e5611adb2c619bd7bd3817ddde7ba865ef17c6aa9a9c47252ac7b07ed6d10459027e2f2a2de0 – before 630d5d8f2bf6b340202b6bc2c05d794bbd8e4c1c
Linux Linux 6.4

Weakness: CWE-476 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References