CVE-2024-26693

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.4-6.6.17, 6.7.0-6.7.5 - Denial of Service via WiFi Authentication Frame Flood

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix a crash when we run out of stations A DoS tool that injects loads of authentication frames made our AP crash. The iwl_mvm_is_dup() function couldn't find the per-queue dup_data which was not allocated. The root cause for that is that we ran out of stations in the firmware and we didn't really add the station to the firmware, yet we didn't return an error to mac80211. Mac80211 was thinking that we have the station and because of that, sta_info::uploaded was set to 1. This allowed ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr() to return a valid station object, but that ieee80211_sta didn't have any iwl_mvm_sta object initialized and that caused the crash mentioned earlier when we got Rx on that station.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 15.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 6.4.0 - 6.6.18linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.7.6linux
Linux/Linux < 6.4
Linux/Linux 57974a55d995468a9a476e24693eb741c649b25f - 00f4eb31b8193f6070ce24df636883f9c104ca95
Linux/Linux 57974a55d995468a9a476e24693eb741c649b25f - b7198383ef2debe748118996f627452281cf27d7
Linux/Linux 57974a55d995468a9a476e24693eb741c649b25f - c12f0f4d4caf23b1bfdc2602b6b70d56bdcd6aa7
Linux/Linux 6.4
Linux/Linux 6.6.18 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 6.7.6 - 6.7.*
Linux/Linux 6.8
... and 2 more
Published Apr 03, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026