CVE-2024-35838 wifi: mac80211: fix potential sta-link leak

What is CVE-2024-35838?

CVE-2024-35838 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 May 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: mac80211: fix potential sta-link leak

When a station is allocated, links are added but not set to valid yet (e.g. during connection to an AP MLD), we might remove the station without ever marking links valid, and leak them. Fix that.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-35838?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-35838?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-35838 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-35838 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-35838, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35838, GHSA-v8fm-4cx6-7vh8, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-35838.