{"id":"CVE-2024-56663","summary":"wifi: nl80211: fix NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINK_ID off-by-one","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: nl80211: fix NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINK_ID off-by-one\n\nSince the netlink attribute range validation provides inclusive\nchecking, the *max* of attribute NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINK_ID should be\nIEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS - 1 otherwise causing an off-by-one.\n\nOne crash stack for demonstration:\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: wild-memory-access in ieee80211_tx_control_port+0x3b6/0xca0 net/mac80211/tx.c:5939\nRead of size 6 at addr 001102080000000c by task fuzzer.386/9508\n\nCPU: 1 PID: 9508 Comm: syz.1.386 Not tainted 6.1.70 #2\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x177/0x231 lib/dump_stack.c:106\n print_report+0xe0/0x750 mm/kasan/report.c:398\n kasan_report+0x139/0x170 mm/kasan/report.c:495\n kasan_check_range+0x287/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189\n memcpy+0x25/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:65\n ieee80211_tx_control_port+0x3b6/0xca0 net/mac80211/tx.c:5939\n rdev_tx_control_port net/wireless/rdev-ops.h:761 [inline]\n nl80211_tx_control_port+0x7b3/0xc40 net/wireless/nl80211.c:15453\n genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22e/0x320 net/netlink/genetlink.c:756\n genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:833 [inline]\n genl_rcv_msg+0x539/0x740 net/netlink/genetlink.c:850\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x1de/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2508\n genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:861\n netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1326 [inline]\n netlink_unicast+0x74b/0x8c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1352\n netlink_sendmsg+0x882/0xb90 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1874\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:716 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:728 [inline]\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x5cc/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2499\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x21c/0x290 net/socket.c:2553\n __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2582 [inline]\n __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2591 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendmsg+0x19e/0x270 net/socket.c:2589\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x45/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nUpdate the policy to ensure correct validation.","modified":"2026-04-16T04:31:09.707760502Z","published":"2024-12-27T15:06:25.403Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2025:0289-1","SUSE-SU-2025:0428-1","SUSE-SU-2025:0499-1","SUSE-SU-2025:0557-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20165-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20166-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20248-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20249-1","USN-7379-2","USN-7380-1"],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"Linux","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/56xxx/CVE-2024-56663.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29e640ae641b9f5ffc666049426d2b16c98d9963"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e3dbf938656986cce73ac4083500d0bcfbffe24"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3412522f78826fef1dfae40ef378a863df2591c"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f850d1d9f1106f528dfc5807565f2d1fa9a397d3"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/56xxx/CVE-2024-56663.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56663"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"7b0a0e3c3a88260b6fcb017e49f198463aa62ed1"},{"fixed":"29e640ae641b9f5ffc666049426d2b16c98d9963"},{"fixed":"f3412522f78826fef1dfae40ef378a863df2591c"},{"fixed":"f850d1d9f1106f528dfc5807565f2d1fa9a397d3"},{"fixed":"2e3dbf938656986cce73ac4083500d0bcfbffe24"}]},{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"7a53ad13c09150076b7ddde96c2dfc5622c90b45"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-56663.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"}]}