# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-26779"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-04-03T17:01:09.807Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:27:11.945Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26779"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26779.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26779"
title: "wifi: mac80211: fix race condition on enabling fast-xmit"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: fix race condition on enabling fast-xmit\n\nfast-xmit must only be enabled after the sta has been uploaded to the driver,\notherwise it could end up passing the not-yet-uploaded sta via drv_tx calls\nto the driver, leading to potential crashes because of uninitialized drv_priv\ndata.\nAdd a missing sta-\u003euploaded check and re-check fast xmit after inserting a sta."
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