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GHSA-VC6H-6PQG-P2HX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-06-08 15:31 – Updated: 2025-02-03 18:30

Details

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

wifi: iwlwifi: Use request_module_nowait

This appears to work around a deadlock regression that came in with the LED merge in 6.9.

The deadlock happens on my system with 24 iwlwifi radios, so maybe it something like all worker threads are busy and some work that needs to complete cannot complete.

[also remove unnecessary "load_module" var and now-wrong comment]

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-2024-36970 (GCVE-0-2024-36970)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-08 13:01 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:18

Title

wifi: iwlwifi: Use request_module_nowait

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: Use request_module_nowait This appears to work around a deadlock regression that came in with the LED merge in 6.9. The deadlock happens on my system with 24 iwlwifi radios, so maybe it something like all worker threads are busy and some work that needs to complete cannot complete. [also remove unnecessary "load_module" var and now-wrong comment]

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-06-10 13:05 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6994 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d20013259539e2fde…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d913719df14c28c4…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: f5c31bcf604db54470868f3118a60dc4a9ba8813 , < d20013259539e2fde2deeac85354851097afdf9e (git) Affected: f5c31bcf604db54470868f3118a60dc4a9ba8813 , < 3d913719df14c28c4d3819e7e6d150760222bda4 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.9 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver) Unaffected: 6.9.2 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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