CVE-2024-58072
Published: Mar 6, 2025
Modified: May 12, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtlwifi: remove unused check_buddy_priv Commit 2461c7d60f9f ("rtlwifi: Update header file") introduced a global list of private data structures. Later on, commit 26634c4b1868 ("rtlwifi Modify existing bits to match vendor version 2013.02.07") started adding the private data to that list at probe time and added a hook, check_buddy_priv to find the private data from a similar device. However, that function was never used. Besides, though there is a lock for that list, it is never used. And when the probe fails, the private data is never removed from the list. This would cause a second probe to access freed memory. Remove the unused hook, structures and members, which will prevent the potential race condition on the list and its corruption during a second probe when probe fails.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 26634c4b1868323f49f8cd24c3493b57819867fd - < f801e754efa21bd61b3cc15ec7565696165b272faffected 26634c4b1868323f49f8cd24c3493b57819867fd - < 1b9cbd8a9ae68b32099fbb03b2d5ffa0c5e0dcc9affected 26634c4b1868323f49f8cd24c3493b57819867fd - < 8e2fcc68fbaab3ad9f5671fee2be0956134b740aaffected 26634c4b1868323f49f8cd24c3493b57819867fd - < 1e39b0486cdb496cdfba3bc89886150e46acf6f4affected 26634c4b1868323f49f8cd24c3493b57819867fd - < 465d01ef6962b82b1f0ad1f3e58b398dbd35c1c1+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.10unaffected 0 - < 3.10unaffected 5.4.291 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.235 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.179 - <= 5.15.*+5 more versions |
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