CVE-2024-43848 (GCVE-0-2024-43848)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-17 09:22 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:36
VLAI
Title
wifi: mac80211: fix TTLM teardown work
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: fix TTLM teardown work The worker calculates the wrong sdata pointer, so if it ever runs, it'll crash. Fix that.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 16:07 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6639 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a17a58ad2ff24f0d201fa5f9939182f3757d1737 , < 9750899410c8478ef043c42029f4f6144c096eac (git)
Affected: a17a58ad2ff24f0d201fa5f9939182f3757d1737 , < 2fe0a605d083b884490ee4de02be071b5b4291b1 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.10.3 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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