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GHSA-V8FM-4CX6-7VH8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-05-17 15:31 – Updated: 2025-09-19 21:31

Details

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.

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-17 14:02 – Updated: 2025-05-04 09:06

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.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/587c5892976108674…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e04bf59bdba0fa45d…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b01a74b3ca6fd51b6…

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Product

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Linux

Affected: cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd , < 49aaeb8c539b1633b3bd7c2df131ec578aa1eae1 (git)
Affected: cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd , < 587c5892976108674bbe61a8ff659de279318034 (git)
Affected: cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd , < e04bf59bdba0fa45d52160be676114e16be855a9 (git)
Affected: cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd , < b01a74b3ca6fd51b62c67733ba7c3280fa6c5d26 (git)

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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GHSA-V8FM-4CX6-7VH8

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

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