# CVE-2024-47714: wifi: mt76: mt7996: use hweight16 to get correct tx antenna

- Severity: CVSS 7.6 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-10-21 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.2

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: use hweight16 to get correct tx antenna The chainmask is u16 so using hweight8 cannot get correct tx_ant. Without this patch, the tx_ant of band 2 would be -1 and lead to the following issue: BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in mt7996_mcu_add_sta+0x12e0/0x16e0 [mt7996e]

## What to do

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50d87e3b70980abc090676b6b4703fcbd96221f9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f51fc8a9e2fd96363d8ec3f4ee4b78dd64754e3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33954930870c18ec549e4bca0eeff43e252cb740
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f98c3de92bb05dac4a4969df8a4595ed380b4604

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