wifi: mac80211: fix race condition on enabling fast-xmit (Linux Linux)

CVE-2024-26779
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.28 % · percentile 21 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: fix race condition on enabling fast-xmit fast-xmit must only be enabled after the sta has been uploaded to the driver, otherwise it could end up passing the not-yet-uploaded sta via drv_tx calls to the driver, leading to potential crashes because of uninitialized drv_priv data. Add a missing sta->uploaded check and re-check fast xmit after inserting a sta.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 17c18bf880b2464851e5a2bca86521affc46c97e < 76fad1174a0cae6fc857b9f88b261a2e4f07d587 ; affected 17c18bf880b2464851e5a2bca86521affc46c97e < 85720b69aef177318f4a18efbcc4302228a340e5 ; affected 17c18bf880b2464851e5a2bca86521affc46c97e < 5ffab99e070b9f8ae0cf60c3c3602b84eee818dd ; affected 17c18bf880b2464851e5a2bca86521affc46c97e < 88c18fd06608b3adee547102505d715f21075c9d ; affected 17c18bf880b2464851e5a2bca86521affc46c97e < eb39bb548bf974acad7bd6780fe11f9e6652d696 ; affected 17c18bf880b2464851e5a2bca86521affc46c97e < 54b79d8786964e2f840e8a2ec4a9f9a50f3d4954
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.2 ; unaffected 0 < 4.2 ; unaffected 4.19.308 ≤ 4.19.* ; unaffected 5.4.270 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.211 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.150 ≤ 5.15.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD