CVE-2024-58061 wifi: mac80211: prohibit deactivating all links

What is CVE-2024-58061?

CVE-2024-58061 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 Mar 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:

wifi: mac80211: prohibit deactivating all links

In the internal API this calls this is a WARN_ON, but that should remain since internally we want to know about bugs that may cause this. Prevent deactivating all links in the debugfs write directly.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-58061?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-58061?

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-2024-58061 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-58061 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
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-58061, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58061, GHSA-j5x9-p6jc-xc24, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2024-58061, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58061.