Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-47718 - Use After Free vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: always wait for both firmware loading attempts In 'rtw_wait_firmware_completion()', always wait for both (regular and wowlan) firmware loading attempts. Otherwise if 'rtw_usb_intf_init()' has failed in 'rtw_usb_probe()', 'rtw_usb_disconnect()' may issue 'ieee80211_free_hw()' when one of 'rtw_load_firmware_cb()' (usually the wowlan one) is still in progress, causing UAF detected by KASAN.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0c1e2da652cf70825739bc12d49ea15805690bf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceaab3fb64d6a5426a3db8f87f3e5757964f2532
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7887ad11995a4142671cc49146db536f923c8568
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b8178a2ae272256ea0dc4f940320a81003535e2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9432185540bafd42b7bfac6e6ef2f0a0fb4be447
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9a78d9417e167410d6fb83c4e908b077ad8ba6d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e735a4c6137262bcefe45bb52fde7b1f5fc6c4d