Vulnerability details

CVE-2024-53188

Linux Linux

wifi: ath12k: fix crash when unbinding

CVSS 3.1
7.8High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: fix crash when unbinding If there is an error during some initialization related to firmware, the function ath12k_dp_cc_cleanup is called to release resources. However this is released again when the device is unbinded (ath12k_pci), and we get: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020 at RIP: 0010:ath12k_dp_cc_cleanup.part.0+0xb6/0x500 [ath12k] Call Trace: ath12k_dp_cc_cleanup ath12k_dp_free ath12k_core_deinit ath12k_pci_remove ... The issue is always reproducible from a VM because the MSI addressing initialization is failing. In order to fix the issue, just set to NULL the released structure in ath12k_dp_cc_cleanup at the end.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
5.5Medium 3.1 CISA ADP / Vulnrichment (CISA-ADP) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.8High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 6.3 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 ≤ v < 81da9c0854545c3188ca2a09afe7cb65f9c012b5 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 ≤ v < 2eec88c0fa63f8ad35704a8c9df0b5bd8694fcda CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 ≤ v < 488d2959c28621e52b3cce118a813a4bc18bb3d1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 ≤ v < 1304446f67863385dc4c914b6e0194f6664ee764 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2024-12-27
Last updated
2026-08-05
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.24%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
15.9%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476
    NULL Pointer Dereference