CVE-2024-26666 (GCVE-0-2024-26666)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-02 06:22 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:26
VLAI
Title
wifi: mac80211: fix RCU use in TDLS fast-xmit
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: fix RCU use in TDLS fast-xmit This looks up the link under RCU protection, but isn't guaranteed to actually have protection. Fix that.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
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: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-04 16:57 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8cc07265b69141f8ed9597d0f27185239c241c80 , < fc3432ae8232ff4025e7c55012dd88db0e3d18eb (git)
Affected: 8cc07265b69141f8ed9597d0f27185239c241c80 , < c255c3b653c6e8b52ac658c305e2fece2825f7ad (git)
Affected: 8cc07265b69141f8ed9597d0f27185239c241c80 , < 9480adfe4e0f0319b9da04b44e4eebd5ad07e0cd (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.17 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7.5 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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linux linux_kernel Affected: 8cc07265b691 , < fc3432ae8232 (git)
Affected: 8cc07265b691 , < c255c3b653c6 (git)
Affected: 8cc07265b691 , < 9480adfe4e0f (git)
Affected: 6.5
Affected: 0 , < 6.5 (custom)
Affected: 6.6.17 , ≤ 6.6* (custom)
Affected: 6.75 , ≤ 6.7* (custom)
Affected: 6.8 , ≤ * (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:linux:linux_kernel:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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