CVE-2024-46760
Published: Sep 18, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 - < c83d464b82a8ad62ec9077637f75d73fe955635aaffected e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 - < 25eaef533bf3ccc6fee5067aac16f41f280e343eaffected e3037485c68ec1a299ff41160d8fedbd4abc29b9 - < adc539784c98a7cc602cbf557debfc2e7b9be8b3 |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.2unaffected 0 - < 5.2unaffected 6.6.51 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.10.10 - <= 6.10.*unaffected 6.11 - <= * |
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