{"id":"CVE-2024-57997","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-57997","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T06:13:56.967Z","title":"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.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: wcn36xx: fix channel survey memory allocation size\n\nKASAN reported a memory allocation issue in wcn->chan_survey\ndue to incorrect size calculation.\nThis commit uses kcalloc to allocate memory for wcn->chan_survey,\nensuring proper initialization and preventing the use of uninitialized\nvalues when there are no frames on the channel.","published":"2025-02-27T02:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-04T11:22:35.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-908"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.0033,"percentile":0.26022,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.33%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34cd2817708aec51ef1a6c007e0d6d5342a025d7","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6200d947f050efdba4090dfefd8a01981363d954","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64c4dcaeac1dc1030e47883b04a617ca9a4f164e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae68efdff7a7a42ab251cac79d8713de6f0dbaa0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e95f9c408ff8311f75eeabc8acf34a66670d8815","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57997","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}