CVE-2024-50236
Published: Nov 9, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath10k: Fix memory leak in management tx In the current logic, memory is allocated for storing the MSDU context during management packet TX but this memory is not being freed during management TX completion. Similar leaks are seen in the management TX cleanup logic. Kmemleak reports this problem as below, unreferenced object 0xffffff80b64ed250 (size 16): comm "kworker/u16:7", pid 148, jiffies 4294687130 (age 714.199s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 00 2b d8 d8 80 ff ff ff c4 74 e9 fd 07 00 00 00 .+.......t...... backtrace: [<ffffffe6e7b245dc>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e4/0x2d8 [<ffffffe6e7adde88>] kmalloc_trace+0x48/0x110 [<ffffffe6bbd765fc>] ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_gen_mgmt_tx_send+0xd4/0x1d8 [ath10k_core] [<ffffffe6bbd3eed4>] ath10k_mgmt_over_wmi_tx_work+0x134/0x298 [ath10k_core] [<ffffffe6e78d5974>] process_scheduled_works+0x1ac/0x400 [<ffffffe6e78d60b8>] worker_thread+0x208/0x328 [<ffffffe6e78dc890>] kthread+0x100/0x1c0 [<ffffffe6e78166c0>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 Free the memory during completion and cleanup to fix the leak. Protect the mgmt_pending_tx idr_remove() operation in ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_cleanup_mgmt_tx_send() using ar->data_lock similar to other instances. Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 SNOC WLAN.HL.2.0-01387-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d - < eff818238bedb9c2484c251ec46f9f160911cdc0affected dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d - < 6fc9af3df6ca7f3c94774d20f62dc7b49616026daffected dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d - < 4112450da7d67b59ccedc2208bae622db17dbcb8affected dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d - < 705be2dc45c7f852e211e16bc41a916fab741983affected dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d - < 6cc23898e6ba47e976050d3c080b4d2c1add3748+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.19unaffected 0 - < 4.19unaffected 4.19.323 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.285 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.229 - <= 5.10.*+5 more versions |
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