Messages in this thread | | | From | Ganapathi Bhat <> | Subject | RE: [EXT] mwifiex: Firmware name for W8997 sdio wifi chip | Date | Fri, 29 May 2020 08:43:56 +0000 |
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Hi Pali,
> According to publicly available information, firmware for these W8xxx > Marvell wifi chips is vulnerable to security issue CVE-2019-6496 [1]. > > Are you able to update firmwares to the last versions and give us some > information which (old) firmware versions are affected by that security issue? > > So Linux distribution would know if they are distributing older vulnerable > firmwares and should push security fixes with new firmware versions. >
88W8787, 88W8797, 88W8801, 88W8897, and 88W8997 models are all already updated, with one exception: usb8897_uapsta.bin, which we will upstream soon;
Regards, Ganapathi
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