wifi: mac80211: fix potential sta-link leak (Linux Linux)

CVE-2024-35838
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.23 % · percentile 14 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd < 49aaeb8c539b1633b3bd7c2df131ec578aa1eae1 ; affected cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd < 587c5892976108674bbe61a8ff659de279318034 ; affected cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd < e04bf59bdba0fa45d52160be676114e16be855a9 ; affected cb71f1d136a635decf43c3b502ee34fb05640fcd < b01a74b3ca6fd51b62c67733ba7c3280fa6c5d26
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.0 ; unaffected 0 < 6.0 ; unaffected 6.1.76 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.15 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.7.3 ≤ 6.7.* ; unaffected 6.8 ≤ *

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