Riskcovery

CVE-2024-35838

wifi: mac80211: fix potential sta-link leak

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 17, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 17, 2024

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Description

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

wifi: mac80211: fix potential sta-link leak

When a station is allocated, links are added but not set to valid yet (e.g. during connection to an AP MLD), we might remove the station without ever marking links valid, and leak them. Fix that.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd to before 49aaeb8c539b1633b3bd7c2df131ec578aa1eae1Affected
  • cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd to before 587c5892976108674bbe61a8ff659de279318034Affected
  • cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd to before e04bf59bdba0fa45d52160be676114e16be855a9Affected
  • cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd to before b01a74b3ca6fd51b62c67733ba7c3280fa6c5d26Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.0Affected
  • before 6.0Not affected
  • 6.1.76 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.15 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.7.3 through 6.7.*Not affected
  • 6.8 and laterNot affected

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