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CVE-2024-47718

wifi: rtw88: always wait for both firmware loading attempts

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.10.227, 5.15.168, 6.1.113, 6.6.54, 6.10.13, and 1 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: always wait for both firmware loading attempts In 'rtw_wait_firmware_completion()', always wait for both (regular and wowlan) firmware loading attempts. Otherwise if 'rtw_usb_intf_init()' has failed in 'rtw_usb_probe()', 'rtw_usb_disconnect()' may issue 'ieee80211_free_hw()' when one of 'rtw_load_firmware_cb()' (usually the wowlan one) is still in progress, causing UAF detected by KASAN.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From c8e5695eae9959fc5774c0f490f2450be8bad3de · fixed in a0c1e2da652cf70825739bc12d49ea15805690bf; From c8e5695eae9959fc5774c0f490f2450be8bad3de · fixed in ceaab3fb64d6a5426a3db8f87f3e5757964f2532; From c8e5695eae9959fc5774c0f490f2450be8bad3de · fixed in 7887ad11995a4142671cc49146db536f923c8568; From c8e5695eae9959fc5774c0f490f2450be8bad3de · fixed in 1b8178a2ae272256ea0dc4f940320a81003535e2; From c8e5695eae9959fc5774c0f490f2450be8bad3de · fixed in 9432185540bafd42b7bfac6e6ef2f0a0fb4be447; From c8e5695eae9959fc5774c0f490f2450be8bad3de · fixed in e9a78d9417e167410d6fb83c4e908b077ad8ba6d; From c8e5695eae9959fc5774c0f490f2450be8bad3de · fixed in 0e735a4c6137262bcefe45bb52fde7b1f5fc6c4d

  • Linux Linux

    5.6

  • KernelLinux

    From 5.6.0 · fixed in 5.10.227; From 5.11.0 · fixed in 5.15.168; From 5.16.0 · fixed in 6.1.113; From 6.2.0 · fixed in 6.6.54; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.10.13; From 6.11.0 · fixed in 6.11.2

References 7

git.kernel.org