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GHSA-7GHH-HPQX-6WF8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-11-19 18:31 – Updated: 2024-11-25 18:33

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't leak a link on AP removal

Release the link mapping resource in AP removal. This impacted devices that do not support the MLD API (9260 and down). On those devices, we couldn't start the AP again after the AP has been already started and stopped.

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-2024-53074 (GCVE-0-2024-53074)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-19 17:31 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:50

Title

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't leak a link on AP removal

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't leak a link on AP removal Release the link mapping resource in AP removal. This impacted devices that do not support the MLD API (9260 and down). On those devices, we couldn't start the AP again after the AP has been already started and stopped.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-772 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Assigner

Linux

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70ddf9ce1894c48db…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ed092997a004d68a…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: a8b5d4809b503da668966a8187b9872e6c85291c , < 70ddf9ce1894c48dbbf10b0de51a95e4fb3dd376 (git) Affected: a8b5d4809b503da668966a8187b9872e6c85291c , < 3ed092997a004d68a3a5b0eeb94e71b69839d0f7 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.9 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver) Unaffected: 6.11.7 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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