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CVE-2024-26637

kernel: wifi: ath11k: rely on mac80211 debugfs handling for vif

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 3.1

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Published · March 18, 2024

Updated · August 5, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in the WiFi driver for ath11k in the Linux kernel, where it caused crashes due to improper handling of debugfs entries. The mac80211 subsystem began deleting these entries under certain conditions, leading to conflicts when ath11k attempted to delete them again, causing system instability and crashes.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 4.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-99 · Improper Control of Resource Identifiers ('Resource Injection')