# 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-2024-57899"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-01-15T13:05:50.701Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:46:51.150Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
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-2024-57899"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-57899.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57899"
title: "wifi: mac80211: fix mbss changed flags corruption on 32 bit systems"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: fix mbss changed flags corruption on 32 bit systems\n\nOn 32-bit systems, the size of an unsigned long is 4 bytes,\nwhile a u64 is 8 bytes. Therefore, when using\nor_each_set_bit(bit, &bits, sizeof(changed) * BITS_PER_BYTE),\nthe code is incorrectly searching for a bit in a 32-bit\nvariable that is expected to be 64 bits in size,\nleading to incorrect bit finding.\n\nSolution: Ensure that the size of the bits variable is correctly\nadjusted for each architecture.\n\n Call Trace:\n  ? show_regs+0x54/0x58\n  ? __warn+0x6b/0xd4\n  ? ieee80211_link_info_change_notify+0xcc/0xd4 [mac80211]\n  ? report_bug+0x113/0x150\n  ? exc_overflow+0x30/0x30\n  ? handle_bug+0x27/0x44\n  ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x50\n  ? handle_exception+0xf6/0xf6\n  ? exc_overflow+0x30/0x30\n  ? ieee80211_link_info_change_notify+0xcc/0xd4 [mac80211]\n  ? exc_overflow+0x30/0x30\n  ? ieee80211_link_info_change_notify+0xcc/0xd4 [mac80211]\n  ? ieee80211_mesh_work+0xff/0x260 [mac80211]\n  ? cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x72/0x98 [cfg80211]\n  ? process_one_work+0xf1/0x1fc\n  ? worker_thread+0x2c0/0x3b4\n  ? kthread+0xc7/0xf0\n  ? mod_delayed_work_on+0x4c/0x4c\n  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x14/0x14\n  ? ret_from_fork+0x24/0x38\n  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x14/0x14\n  ? ret_from_fork_asm+0xf/0x14\n  ? entry_INT80_32+0xf0/0xf0\n\n[restore no-op path for no changes]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"15ddba5f43114c1fd9cd83676e04a9e1acf8e37f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86772872f9f5097cd03d0e1c6813238bd38c250b"},{"version":"15ddba5f43114c1fd9cd83676e04a9e1acf8e37f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36b739637d7042843f9df57212ecee6ed6e0d4b2"},{"version":"15ddba5f43114c1fd9cd83676e04a9e1acf8e37f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"49dba1ded8dd5a6a12748631403240b2ab245c34"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"},{"version":"6.6.70","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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