# CVE-2024-57948: mac802154: check local interfaces before deleting sdata list

> A race condition in the Linux kernel mac802154 subsystem can cause a kernel crash when removing network interfaces concurrently with device unregistration.

- **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:** 31 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-57948, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57948, GHSA-xfqf-9xf6-r5wv, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57948

## What is CVE-2024-57948?

CVE-2024-57948 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 31 Jan 2025. 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:

mac802154: check local interfaces before deleting sdata list

syzkaller reported a corrupted list in ieee802154_if_remove. [1]

Remove an IEEE 802.15.4 network interface after unregister an IEEE 802.15.4
hardware device from the system.

CPU0					CPU1
====					====
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit		ieee802154_unregister_hw
ieee802154_del_iface			ieee802154_remove_interfaces
rdev_del_virtual_intf_deprecated	list_del(&sdata->list)
ieee802154_if_remove
list_del_rcu

The net device has been unregistered, since the rcu grace period,
unregistration must be run before ieee802154_if_remove.

To avoid this issue, add a check for local->interfaces before deleting
sdata list.

[1]
kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:58!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6277 Comm: syz-executor157 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-syzkaller-00005-g557329bcecc2 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xf4/0x140 lib/list_debug.c:56
Code: e8 a1 7e 00 07 90 0f 0b 48 c7 c7 e0 37 60 8c 4c 89 fe e8 8f 7e 00 07 90 0f 0b 48 c7 c7 40 38 60 8c 4c 89 fe e8 7d 7e 00 07 90 <0f> 0b 48 c7 c7 a0 38 60 8c 4c 89 fe e8 6b 7e 00 07 90 0f 0b 48 c7
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000490f3d0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 000000000000004e RBX: dead000000000122 RCX: d211eee56bb28d00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff88805b278dd8 R08: ffffffff8174a12c R09: 1ffffffff2852f0d
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2852f0e R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: dead000000000100 R15: ffff88805b278cc0
FS:  0000555572f94380(0000) GS:ffff8880b8600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000056262e4a3000 CR3: 0000000078496000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __list_del_entry_valid include/linux/list.h:124 [inline]
 __list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:215 [inline]
 list_del_rcu include/linux/rculist.h:157 [inline]
 ieee802154_if_remove+0x86/0x1e0 net/mac802154/iface.c:687
 rdev_del_virtual_intf_deprecated net/ieee802154/rdev-ops.h:24 [inline]
 ieee802154_del_iface+0x2c0/0x5c0 net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c:323
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115 [inline]
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0xb14/0xec0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1e3/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2551
 genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1331 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x7f6/0x990 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1357
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8e4/0xcb0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1901
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:729 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x221/0x270 net/socket.c:744
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x52a/0x7e0 net/socket.c:2607
 ___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2661 [inline]
 __sys_sendmsg+0x292/0x380 net/socket.c:2690
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-57948?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-57948?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-57948 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-57948 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-57948 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-57948 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 31 Jan 2025. 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-2024-57948 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-2024-57948/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-57948/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57948
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57948
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-57948

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