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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-50236" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-11-09T10:14:46.202Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:48:08.586Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z" 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-2024-50236" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50236.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50236" title: "wifi: ath10k: Fix memory leak in management tx" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath10k: Fix memory leak in management tx\n\nIn the current logic, memory is allocated for storing the MSDU context\nduring management packet TX but this memory is not being freed during\nmanagement TX completion. Similar leaks are seen in the management TX\ncleanup logic.\n\nKmemleak reports this problem as below,\n\nunreferenced object 0xffffff80b64ed250 (size 16):\n comm \"kworker/u16:7\", pid 148, jiffies 4294687130 (age 714.199s)\n hex dump (first 16 bytes):\n 00 2b d8 d8 80 ff ff ff c4 74 e9 fd 07 00 00 00 .+.......t......\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffe6e7b245dc\u003e] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e4/0x2d8\n [\u003cffffffe6e7adde88\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x48/0x110\n [\u003cffffffe6bbd765fc\u003e] ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_gen_mgmt_tx_send+0xd4/0x1d8 [ath10k_core]\n [\u003cffffffe6bbd3eed4\u003e] ath10k_mgmt_over_wmi_tx_work+0x134/0x298 [ath10k_core]\n [\u003cffffffe6e78d5974\u003e] process_scheduled_works+0x1ac/0x400\n [\u003cffffffe6e78d60b8\u003e] worker_thread+0x208/0x328\n [\u003cffffffe6e78dc890\u003e] kthread+0x100/0x1c0\n [\u003cffffffe6e78166c0\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n\nFree the memory during completion and cleanup to fix the leak.\n\nProtect the mgmt_pending_tx idr_remove() operation in\nath10k_wmi_tlv_op_cleanup_mgmt_tx_send() using ar-\u003edata_lock similar to\nother instances.\n\nTested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 SNOC WLAN.HL.2.0-01387-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eff818238bedb9c2484c251ec46f9f160911cdc0"},{"version":"dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6fc9af3df6ca7f3c94774d20f62dc7b49616026d"},{"version":"dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4112450da7d67b59ccedc2208bae622db17dbcb8"},{"version":"dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"705be2dc45c7f852e211e16bc41a916fab741983"},{"version":"dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6cc23898e6ba47e976050d3c080b4d2c1add3748"},{"version":"dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f5a939759c79e7385946c85e62feca51a18d816"},{"version":"dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2f6f1e26ac6d2b38e2198a71f81f0ade14d6b07b"},{"version":"dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e15d84b3bba187aa372dff7c58ce1fd5cb48a076"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19"},{"version":"4.19.323","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.285","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.229","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.171","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.116","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.60","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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