Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
Unknown
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User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
Low
Attack Vector
Local
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CVE-2024-47718

Disclosure Date: October 21, 2024
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: rtw88: always wait for both firmware loading attempts

In ‘rtw_wait_firmware_completion()’, always wait for both (regular and
wowlan) firmware loading attempts. Otherwise if ‘rtw_usb_intf_init()’
has failed in ‘rtw_usb_probe()’, ‘rtw_usb_disconnect()’ may issue
‘ieee80211_free_hw()’ when one of ‘rtw_load_firmware_cb()’ (usually
the wowlan one) is still in progress, causing UAF detected by KASAN.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
7.8 High
Impact Score:
5.9
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
High
Integrity (I):
High
Availability (A):
High

General Information

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel
Technical Analysis