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

[Ganapathi Bhat]

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