CVE-2024-26693

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix a crash when we run out of stations

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: April 3, 2024 at 02:54 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:18 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix a crash when we run out of stations A DoS tool that injects loads of authentication frames made our AP crash. The iwl_mvm_is_dup() function couldn't find the per-queue dup_data which was not allocated. The root cause for that is that we ran out of stations in the firmware and we didn't really add the station to the firmware, yet we didn't return an error to mac80211. Mac80211 was thinking that we have the station and because of that, sta_info::uploaded was set to 1. This allowed ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr() to return a valid station object, but that ieee80211_sta didn't have any iwl_mvm_sta object initialized and that caused the crash mentioned earlier when we got Rx on that station.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.4 ≤ v < 6.6.186.4 ≤ v < 6.7.66.4 ≤ v < 6.86.7 ≤ v < 6.7.657974a55d995468a9a476e24693eb741c649b25f6.8 rc16.8 rc26.8 rc36.8 rc4
Vendor states this is fixed in 00f4eb31b8193f6070ce24df636883f9c104ca95 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b7198383ef2debe748118996f627452281cf27d7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c12f0f4d4caf23b1bfdc2602b6b70d56bdcd6aa7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.7.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.8 (unaffected)

References (3)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00f4eb31b8193f6070ce24df636883f9c104ca95
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7198383ef2debe748118996f627452281cf27d7
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c12f0f4d4caf23b1bfdc2602b6b70d56bdcd6aa7

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
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