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    "id": "CVE-2024-26896",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26896",
    "idYear": 2024,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2024-04-17T10:27:47.214Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T20:06:31.074Z",
    "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"
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      "title": "wifi: wfx: fix memory leak when starting AP",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: wfx: fix memory leak when starting AP\n\nKmemleak reported this error:\n\n    unreferenced object 0xd73d1180 (size 184):\n      comm \"wpa_supplicant\", pid 1559, jiffies 13006305 (age 964.245s)\n      hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1e 00 01 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n      backtrace:\n        [<5ca11420>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x20c/0x5ac\n        [<127bdd74>] __alloc_skb+0x144/0x170\n        [<fb8a5e38>] __netdev_alloc_skb+0x50/0x180\n        [<0f9fa1d5>] __ieee80211_beacon_get+0x290/0x4d4 [mac80211]\n        [<7accd02d>] ieee80211_beacon_get_tim+0x54/0x18c [mac80211]\n        [<41e25cc3>] wfx_start_ap+0xc8/0x234 [wfx]\n        [<93a70356>] ieee80211_start_ap+0x404/0x6b4 [mac80211]\n        [<a4a661cd>] nl80211_start_ap+0x76c/0x9e0 [cfg80211]\n        [<47bd8b68>] genl_rcv_msg+0x198/0x378\n        [<453ef796>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xd0/0x130\n        [<6b7c977a>] genl_rcv+0x34/0x44\n        [<66b2d04d>] netlink_unicast+0x1b4/0x258\n        [<f965b9b6>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1e8/0x428\n        [<aadb8231>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1e0/0x274\n        [<d2b5212d>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x80/0xb4\n        [<69954f45>] __sys_sendmsg+0x64/0xa8\n    unreferenced object 0xce087000 (size 1024):\n      comm \"wpa_supplicant\", pid 1559, jiffies 13006305 (age 964.246s)\n      hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n        10 00 07 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ...@............\n      backtrace:\n        [<9a993714>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x230/0x600\n        [<f83ea192>] kmalloc_reserve.constprop.0+0x30/0x74\n        [<a2c61343>] __alloc_skb+0xa0/0x170\n        [<fb8a5e38>] __netdev_alloc_skb+0x50/0x180\n        [<0f9fa1d5>] __ieee80211_beacon_get+0x290/0x4d4 [mac80211]\n        [<7accd02d>] ieee80211_beacon_get_tim+0x54/0x18c [mac80211]\n        [<41e25cc3>] wfx_start_ap+0xc8/0x234 [wfx]\n        [<93a70356>] ieee80211_start_ap+0x404/0x6b4 [mac80211]\n        [<a4a661cd>] nl80211_start_ap+0x76c/0x9e0 [cfg80211]\n        [<47bd8b68>] genl_rcv_msg+0x198/0x378\n        [<453ef796>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xd0/0x130\n        [<6b7c977a>] genl_rcv+0x34/0x44\n        [<66b2d04d>] netlink_unicast+0x1b4/0x258\n        [<f965b9b6>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1e8/0x428\n        [<aadb8231>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1e0/0x274\n        [<d2b5212d>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x80/0xb4\n\nHowever, since the kernel is build optimized, it seems the stack is not\naccurate. It appears the issue is related to wfx_set_mfp_ap(). The issue\nis obvious in this function: memory allocated by ieee80211_beacon_get()\nis never released. Fixing this leak makes kmemleak happy.",
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