# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-43879"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-08-21T00:06:31.488Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:48:42.323Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-43879"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-43879.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43879"
title: "wifi: cfg80211: handle 2x996 RU allocation in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: cfg80211: handle 2x996 RU allocation in cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he()\n\nCurrently NL80211_RATE_INFO_HE_RU_ALLOC_2x996 is not handled in\ncfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he(), leading to below warning:\n\nkernel: invalid HE MCS: bw:6, ru:6\nkernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2312 at net/wireless/util.c:1501 cfg80211_calculate_bitrate_he+0x22b/0x270 [cfg80211]\n\nFix it by handling 2x996 RU allocation in the same way as 160 MHz bandwidth."
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