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GHSA-P3J3-7Q7C-3G53

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-04-10 21:30 – Updated: 2024-04-19 21:31

Details

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

cfg80211: call cfg80211_stop_ap when switch from P2P_GO type

If the userspace tools switch from NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO to NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC via send_msg(NL80211_CMD_SET_INTERFACE), it does not call the cleanup cfg80211_stop_ap(), this leads to the initialization of in-use data. For example, this path re-init the sdata->assigned_chanctx_list while it is still an element of assigned_vifs list, and makes that linked list corrupt.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2021-47194 (GCVE-0-2021-47194)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-10 18:56 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:46

Title

cfg80211: call cfg80211_stop_ap when switch from P2P_GO type

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cfg80211: call cfg80211_stop_ap when switch from P2P_GO type If the userspace tools switch from NL80211_IFTYPE_P2P_GO to NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC via send_msg(NL80211_CMD_SET_INTERFACE), it does not call the cleanup cfg80211_stop_ap(), this leads to the initialization of in-use data. For example, this path re-init the sdata->assigned_chanctx_list while it is still an element of assigned_vifs list, and makes that linked list corrupt.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-06-21 16:05 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

8 references

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/563fbefed46ae4c1f…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 3.6 Unaffected: 0 , < 3.6 (semver) Unaffected: 4.4.293 , ≤ 4.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.9.291 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.256 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.218 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.162 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.82 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.5 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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