CVE-2024-35937: wifi: cfg80211: check A-MSDU format more carefully

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: cfg80211: check A-MSDU format more carefully

If it looks like there's another subframe in the A-MSDU
but the header isn't fully there, we can end up reading
data out of bounds, only to discard later. Make this a
bit more careful and check if the subframe header can
even be present.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-35937

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.83% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9eb3bc0973d084423a6df21cf2c74692ff05647e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d7a8585fbb31e88fb2a0f581b70667d3300d1e9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16da1e1dac23be45ef6e23c41b1508c400e6c544
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ad7974856926129f190ffbe3beea78460b3b7cc

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