Re: [EXT] mwifiex: Firmware name for W8997 sdio wifi chip

From: Pali RohÃr
Date: Fri May 29 2020 - 04:46:35 EST


On Friday 29 May 2020 08:43:56 Ganapathi Bhat wrote:
> 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;

Hello Ganapathi! Thank you for information. Can you point me to git tree
or location where are firmware files already updated?