{"id":"CVE-2024-47738","summary":"wifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for offchannel TX either","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for offchannel TX either\n\nLike the commit ab9177d83c04 (\"wifi: mac80211: don't use rate mask for\nscanning\"), ignore incorrect settings to avoid no supported rate warning\nreported by syzbot.\n\nThe syzbot did bisect and found cause is commit 9df66d5b9f45 (\"cfg80211:\nfix default HE tx bitrate mask in 2G band\"), which however corrects\nbitmask of HE MCS and recognizes correctly settings of empty legacy rate\nplus HE MCS rate instead of returning -EINVAL.\n\nAs suggestions [1], follow the change of SCAN TX to consider this case of\noffchannel TX as well.\n\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/6ab2dc9c3afe753ca6fdcdd1421e7a1f47e87b84.camel@sipsolutions.net/T/#m2ac2a6d2be06a37c9c47a3d8a44b4f647ed4f024","modified":"2026-03-20T12:39:13.582466Z","published":"2024-10-21T12:14:07.825Z","related":["MGASA-2024-0344","MGASA-2024-0345","SUSE-SU-2024:3983-1","SUSE-SU-2024:3984-1","SUSE-SU-2024:3985-1","SUSE-SU-2024:3986-1","SUSE-SU-2024:4318-1","SUSE-SU-2024:4364-1","SUSE-SU-2024:4387-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20163-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20164-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20246-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20247-1","USN-7276-1","USN-7277-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1","openSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1"],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"Linux","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/47xxx/CVE-2024-47738.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3565ef215101ffadb5fe5394c70b1fca51376b25"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43897111481b679508711d3ca881c4c6593e9247"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aafca50e71dc8f3192a5bfb325135a7908f3ef9e"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d54455a3a965feb547711aff7afd2ca5deadb99c"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7a7ef9a0742dbd0818d5b15fba2c5313ace765b"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/47xxx/CVE-2024-47738.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47738"},{"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":"9df66d5b9f45c39b3925d16e8947cc10009b186d"},{"fixed":"aafca50e71dc8f3192a5bfb325135a7908f3ef9e"},{"fixed":"d54455a3a965feb547711aff7afd2ca5deadb99c"},{"fixed":"3565ef215101ffadb5fe5394c70b1fca51376b25"},{"fixed":"43897111481b679508711d3ca881c4c6593e9247"},{"fixed":"e7a7ef9a0742dbd0818d5b15fba2c5313ace765b"}]},{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1b728869a13470e4c25e8faf0dbb95a009c6850b"},{"last_affected":"ccedf8163fa66f2db85d863a43f056ac69a5fef5"},{"last_affected":"5924678a442d0f5ebf33ebb76b470e68414f1318"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-47738.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}