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CVE-2024-46760

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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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wifi: rtw88: usb: schedule rx work after everything is set up

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: usb: schedule rx work after everything is set up Right now it's possible to hit NULL pointer dereference in rtw_rx_fill_rx_status on hw object and/or its fields because initialization routine can start getting USB replies before rtw_dev is fully setup. The stack trace looks like this: rtw_rx_fill_rx_status rtw8821c_query_rx_desc rtw_usb_rx_handler ... queue_work rtw_usb_read_port_complete ... usb_submit_urb rtw_usb_rx_resubmit rtw_usb_init_rx rtw_usb_probe So while we do the async stuff rtw_usb_probe continues and calls rtw_register_hw, which does all kinds of initialization (e.g. via ieee80211_register_hw) that rtw_rx_fill_rx_status relies on. Fix this by moving the first usb_submit_urb after everything is set up. For me, this bug manifested as: [ 8.893177] rtw_8821cu 1-1:1.2: band wrong, packet dropped [ 8.910904] rtw_8821cu 1-1:1.2: hw->conf.chandef.chan NULL in rtw_rx_fill_rx_status because I'm using Larry's backport of rtw88 driver with the NULL checks in rtw_rx_fill_rx_status.

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)
e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9affectedgitc83d464b82a8ad62ec9077637f75d73fe955635aUnavailableNone listed
e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9affectedgit25eaef533bf3ccc6fee5067aac16f41f280e343eUnavailableNone listed
e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9affectedgitadc539784c98a7cc602cbf557debfc2e7b9be8b3UnavailableNone 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)
5.2affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver5.2UnavailableNone listed
6.6.51unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.10.10unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.10.*None listed
6.11unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed