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GHSA-6RHX-7F5J-52MJ

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: ath12k: fix the error handler of rfkill config

When the core rfkill config throws error, it should free the allocated resources. Currently it is not freeing the core pdev create resources. Avoid this issue by calling the core pdev destroy in the error handler of core rfkill config.

Found this issue in the code review and it is compile tested only.

Severity

7.8 (High)


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

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CVE-2023-52688 (GCVE-0-2023-52688)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-17 14:24 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:11

Title

wifi: ath12k: fix the error handler of rfkill config

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: fix the error handler of rfkill config When the core rfkill config throws error, it should free the allocated resources. Currently it is not freeing the core pdev create resources. Avoid this issue by calling the core pdev destroy in the error handler of core rfkill config. Found this issue in the code review and it is compile tested only.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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 15:41 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6856 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
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Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.7 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver) Unaffected: 6.7.2 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.8 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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