# CVE-2024-26693: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix a crash when we run out of stations

> A remote attacker can crash the Linux kernel Wi-Fi driver by sending excessive authentication frames, causing a denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 3 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-26693, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26693, GHSA-3w39-v724-v74w, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26693

## What is CVE-2024-26693?

CVE-2024-26693 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 3 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix a crash when we run out of stations

A DoS tool that injects loads of authentication frames made our AP
crash. The iwl_mvm_is_dup() function couldn't find the per-queue
dup_data which was not allocated.

The root cause for that is that we ran out of stations in the firmware
and we didn't really add the station to the firmware, yet we didn't
return an error to mac80211.
Mac80211 was thinking that we have the station and because of that,
sta_info::uploaded was set to 1. This allowed
ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr() to return a valid station object, but
that ieee80211_sta didn't have any iwl_mvm_sta object initialized and
that caused the crash mentioned earlier when we got Rx on that station.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26693?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-26693?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-26693 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26693 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-26693 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-26693 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 3 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26693 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26693/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26693/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26693
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26693
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-26693

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26693/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.