# CVE-2024-47715: wifi: mt76: mt7915: fix oops on non-dbdc mt7986

> A null pointer dereference in the mt7915 WiFi driver causes a kernel Oops and system crash on specific MediaTek hardware configurations.

- **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:** 21 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 23 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-51294, BELL-CVE-2024-47715, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-47715, GHSA-qw58-gc74-p646, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47715

## What is CVE-2024-47715?

CVE-2024-47715 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 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: mt76: mt7915: fix oops on non-dbdc mt7986

mt7915_band_config() sets band_idx = 1 on the main phy for mt7986
with MT7975_ONE_ADIE or MT7976_ONE_ADIE.

Commit 0335c034e726 ("wifi: mt76: fix race condition related to
checking tx queue fill status") introduced a dereference of the
phys array indirectly indexed by band_idx via wcid->phy_idx in
mt76_wcid_cleanup(). This caused the following Oops on affected
mt7986 devices:

 Unable to handle kernel read from unreadable memory at virtual address 0000000000000024
 Mem abort info:
   ESR = 0x0000000096000005
   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
   SET = 0, FnV = 0
   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
   FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault
 Data abort info:
   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005
   CM = 0, WnR = 0
 user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000042545000
 [0000000000000024] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000
 Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] SMP
 Modules linked in: ... mt7915e mt76_connac_lib mt76 mac80211 cfg80211 ...
 CPU: 2 PID: 1631 Comm: hostapd Not tainted 5.15.150 #0
 Hardware name: ZyXEL EX5700 (Telenor) (DT)
 pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
 pc : mt76_wcid_cleanup+0x84/0x22c [mt76]
 lr : mt76_wcid_cleanup+0x64/0x22c [mt76]
 sp : ffffffc00a803700
 x29: ffffffc00a803700 x28: ffffff80008f7300 x27: ffffff80003f3c00
 x26: ffffff80000a7880 x25: ffffffc008c26e00 x24: 0000000000000001
 x23: ffffffc000a68114 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffffff8004172cc8
 x20: ffffffc00a803748 x19: ffffff8004152020 x18: 0000000000000000
 x17: 00000000000017c0 x16: ffffffc008ef5000 x15: 0000000000000be0
 x14: ffffff8004172e28 x13: ffffff8004172e28 x12: 0000000000000000
 x11: 0000000000000000 x10: ffffff8004172e30 x9 : ffffff8004172e28
 x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : ffffff8004156020 x6 : 0000000000000000
 x5 : 0000000000000031 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000001
 x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffffff80008f7300 x0 : 0000000000000024
 Call trace:
  mt76_wcid_cleanup+0x84/0x22c [mt76]
  __mt76_sta_remove+0x70/0xbc [mt76]
  mt76_sta_state+0x8c/0x1a4 [mt76]
  mt7915_eeprom_get_power_delta+0x11e4/0x23a0 [mt7915e]
  drv_sta_state+0x144/0x274 [mac80211]
  sta_info_move_state+0x1cc/0x2a4 [mac80211]
  sta_set_sinfo+0xaf8/0xc24 [mac80211]
  sta_info_destroy_addr_bss+0x4c/0x6c [mac80211]

  ieee80211_color_change_finish+0x1c08/0x1e70 [mac80211]
  cfg80211_check_station_change+0x1360/0x4710 [cfg80211]
  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xb4/0x110
  genl_rcv_msg+0xd0/0x1bc
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x58/0x120
  genl_rcv+0x34/0x50
  netlink_unicast+0x1f0/0x2ec
  netlink_sendmsg+0x198/0x3d0
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x1b0/0x210
  ___sys_sendmsg+0x80/0xf0
  __sys_sendmsg+0x44/0xa0
  __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x20/0x30
  invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x4c/0xe0
  do_el0_svc+0x40/0xd0
  el0_svc+0x14/0x4c
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x100/0x110
  el0t_64_sync+0x15c/0x160
 Code: d2800002 910092c0 52800023 f9800011 (885f7c01)
 ---[ end trace 7e42dd9a39ed2281 ]---

Fix by using mt76_dev_phy() which will map band_idx to the correct phy
for all hardware combinations.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-47715?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-47715?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-47715 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-47715 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-47715 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-47715 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 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-2024-47715 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-2024-47715/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-47715/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47715
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47715
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-47715

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-47715/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.