CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-53191
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-12-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath12k: fix warning when unbinding
If there is an error during some initialization related to firmware,
the buffers dp->tx_ring[i].tx_status are released.
However this is released again when the device is unbinded (ath12k_pci),
and we get:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2098 at mm/slub.c:4689 free_large_kmalloc+0x4d/0x80
Call Trace:
free_large_kmalloc
ath12k_dp_free
ath12k_core_deinit
ath12k_pci_remove
...
The issue is always reproducible from a VM because the MSI addressing
initialization is failing.
In order to fix the issue, just set the buffers to NULL after releasing in
order to avoid the double free.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.3 < 6.6.64)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12 < 6.12.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/223b546c6222d42147eff034433002ca5e2e7e09 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90556b96338aa6037cd26dac857327fda7c19732 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94c9100b600f05a36b33f9ed76dbd6fb0eb25386 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca68ce0d9f4bcd032fd1334441175ae399642a06 Patch