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CVE-2023-52769 (GCVE-0-2023-52769)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-21 15:30 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:11
VLAI
Title
wifi: ath12k: fix htt mlo-offset event locking
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: fix htt mlo-offset event locking The ath12k active pdevs are protected by RCU but the htt mlo-offset event handling code calling ath12k_mac_get_ar_by_pdev_id() was not marked as a read-side critical section. Mark the code in question as an RCU read-side critical section to avoid any potential use-after-free issues. Compile tested only.
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 15:37 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 , < d908ca431e20b0e4bfc5d911d1744910ed779bdb (git)
Affected: d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 , < afd3425bd69610f318403084fe491e24a1357fb9 (git)
Affected: d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 , < 6afc57ea315e0f660b1f870a681737bb7b71faef (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.13 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.3 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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