CVE-2024-57997: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wcn36xx: fix channel survey memory allocation size KASAN reported a memory allocation issue in wcn->chan_survey due to incorrect size calculation. This commit uses kcalloc to allocate memory for wcn->chan_survey, ensuring proper initialization and preventing the use of uninitialized values when there are no frames on the channel.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.18, before 6.1.129 (fixed in 6.1.129); from 6.2, before 6.6.76 (fixed in 6.6.76); from 6.7, before 6.12.13 (fixed in 6.12.13); from 6.13, before 6.13.2 (fixed in 6.13.2)

Published 2025-02-27. Last modified 2026-08-04.