CVE-2024-35838 (GCVE-0-2024-35838)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-17 14:02 – Updated: 2025-05-04 09:06
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Title
wifi: mac80211: fix potential sta-link leak
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Affected: cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd , < 49aaeb8c539b1633b3bd7c2df131ec578aa1eae1 (git)
Affected: cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd , < 587c5892976108674bbe61a8ff659de279318034 (git)
Affected: cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd , < e04bf59bdba0fa45d52160be676114e16be855a9 (git)
Affected: cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd , < b01a74b3ca6fd51b62c67733ba7c3280fa6c5d26 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.76 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.15 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7.3 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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