Riskcovery

CVE-2024-50237

wifi: mac80211: do not pass a stopped vif to the driver in .get_txpower

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Nov 9, 2024
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Oct 21, 2024

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Description

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

wifi: mac80211: do not pass a stopped vif to the driver in .get_txpower

Avoid potentially crashing in the driver because of uninitialized private data

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5b3dc42b1b0db0264bbbe4ae44c15ab97bfd1e93 to before b0b862aa3dbcd16b3c4715259a825f48ca540088Affected
  • 5b3dc42b1b0db0264bbbe4ae44c15ab97bfd1e93 to before 78b698fbf37208ee921ee4cedea75b5d33d6ea9fAffected
  • 5b3dc42b1b0db0264bbbe4ae44c15ab97bfd1e93 to before c21efba8b5a86537ccdf43f77536bad02f82776cAffected
  • 5b3dc42b1b0db0264bbbe4ae44c15ab97bfd1e93 to before b2bcbe5450b20641f512d6b26c6b256a5a4f847fAffected
  • 5b3dc42b1b0db0264bbbe4ae44c15ab97bfd1e93 to before 8f6cd4d5bb7406656835a90e4f1a2192607f0c21Affected
  • 5b3dc42b1b0db0264bbbe4ae44c15ab97bfd1e93 to before ee35c423042c9e04079fdee3db545135d609d6eaAffected
  • 5b3dc42b1b0db0264bbbe4ae44c15ab97bfd1e93 to before 3ccf525a73d48e814634847f6d4a6150c6f0dffcAffected
  • 5b3dc42b1b0db0264bbbe4ae44c15ab97bfd1e93 to before 393b6bc174b0dd21bb2a36c13b36e62fc3474a23Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.19Affected
  • before 3.19Not affected
  • 4.19.323 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.285 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.229 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.171 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.116 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.60 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.11.7 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12 and laterNot affected

References

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