wifi: ath11k: rely on mac80211 debugfs handling for vif
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: rely on mac80211 debugfs handling for vif mac80211 started to delete debugfs entries in certain cases, causing a ath11k to crash when it tried to delete the entries later. Fix this by relying on mac80211 to delete the entries when appropriate and adding them from the vif_add_debugfs handler.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: rely on mac80211 debugfs handling for vif mac80211 started to delete debugfs entries in certain cases, causing a ath11k to crash when it tried to delete the entries later. Fix this by relying on mac80211 to delete the entries when appropriate and adding them from the vif_add_debugfs handler.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/556857aa1d0855aba02b1c63bc52b91ec63fc2cc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa74ce30a8a40d19a4256de4ae5322e71344a274
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/26xxx/CVE-2024-26637.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26637