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CVE-2024-26897

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2024
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

wifi: ath9k: delay all of ath9k_wmi_event_tasklet() until init is complete

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: delay all of ath9k_wmi_event_tasklet() until init is complete The ath9k_wmi_event_tasklet() used in ath9k_htc assumes that all the data structures have been fully initialised by the time it runs. However, because of the order in which things are initialised, this is not guaranteed to be the case, because the device is exposed to the USB subsystem before the ath9k driver initialisation is completed. We already committed a partial fix for this in commit: 8b3046abc99e ("ath9k_htc: fix NULL pointer dereference at ath9k_htc_tx_get_packet()") However, that commit only aborted the WMI_TXSTATUS_EVENTID command in the event tasklet, pairing it with an "initialisation complete" bit in the TX struct. It seems syzbot managed to trigger the race for one of the other commands as well, so let's just move the existing synchronisation bit to cover the whole tasklet (setting it at the end of ath9k_htc_probe_device() instead of inside ath9k_tx_init()).

Scoped product and version facts

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.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
78c8397132dd4735ac6a7b5a651302f0b9f264adaffectedgit1bc5461a21c56a36e2a7d81e152b90ce019a3905UnavailableNone listed
735aefae7b68025cd04c482a940c0f6fc6797a63affectedgitf8ff4b4df71e87f609be0cc37d92e918107f9b90UnavailableNone listed
8b3046abc99eefe11438090bcc4ec3a3994b55d0affectedgit74d0639261dd795dce958d1b14815bdcbb48a715UnavailableNone listed
8b3046abc99eefe11438090bcc4ec3a3994b55d0affectedgita015fbf698c8957aa5fbeefc5c59dd2cf3107298UnavailableNone listed
8b3046abc99eefe11438090bcc4ec3a3994b55d0affectedgitac90e22e735bac44f74b5161fb096fbeb0ff8bc2UnavailableNone listed
8b3046abc99eefe11438090bcc4ec3a3994b55d0affectedgit4afa0246656d5680c8a4c3fb37ba6570c4ab819bUnavailableNone listed
8b3046abc99eefe11438090bcc4ec3a3994b55d0affectedgit24355fcb0d4cbcb6ddda262596558e8cfba70f11UnavailableNone listed
7bbc1a50a7963f14048f0e54b0b73159f86d4ea3affectedgitUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
5.10.136affectedsemver5.10.214UnavailableNone listed
5.15.17affectedsemver5.15.153UnavailableNone listed
5.16.3affectedsemver5.17UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
5.17affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver5.17UnavailableNone listed
5.10.214unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.153unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.83unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.23unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.7.11unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.7.*None listed
6.8.2unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.8.*None listed
6.9unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed