CVE-2024-40941

Medium

Elevated severity or exploit probability.

CVSS base

8.1 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)

0.4%

34.0th percentile

CISA KEV

Not listed

Weakness / dates

—

Published 2024-07-12 · modified 2026-08-04

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector	A	Adjacent
Attack Complexity	L	Low
Privileges Required	N	None
User Interaction	N	None
Scope	U	Unchanged
Confidentiality	H	High
Integrity	N	None
Availability	H	High

Timeline

2024-07-12 — Published (NVD)
2026-08-04 — Last modified (NVD)

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't read past the mfuart notifcation In case the firmware sends a notification that claims it has more data than it has, we will read past that was allocated for the notification. Remove the print of the buffer, we won't see it by default. If needed, we can see the content with tracing. This was reported by KFENCE.

Affected

linux

References

Official: NVD · CVE.org