CVE-2023-52769

wifi: ath12k: fix htt mlo-offset event locking

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
May 21, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
May 21, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath12k: fix htt mlo-offset event locking

The ath12k active pdevs are protected by RCU but the htt mlo-offset event handling code calling ath12k_mac_get_ar_by_pdev_id() was not marked as a read-side critical section.

Mark the code in question as an RCU read-side critical section to avoid any potential use-after-free issues.

Compile tested only.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 to before d908ca431e20b0e4bfc5d911d1744910ed779bdbAffected
  • d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 to before afd3425bd69610f318403084fe491e24a1357fb9Affected
  • d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 to before 6afc57ea315e0f660b1f870a681737bb7b71faefAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.3Affected
  • before 6.3Not affected
  • 6.5.13 through 6.5.*Not affected
  • 6.6.3 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.7 and laterNot affected

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