wifi: ath11k: rely on mac80211 debugfs handling for vif
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: rely on mac80211 debugfs handling for vif mac80211 started to delete debugfs entries in certain cases, causing a ath11k to crash when it tried to delete the entries later. Fix this by relying on mac80211 to delete the entries when appropriate and adding them from the vif_add_debugfs handler.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.7.3
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-26637
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 02:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
wifi: ath11k: rely on mac80211 debugfs handling for vif
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 18 Mar 2024, 10:14 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: rely on mac80211 debugfs handling for vif mac80211 started to delete debugfs entries in certain cases, causing a ath11k to crash when it tried to delete the entries later. Fix this by relying on mac80211 to delete the entries when appropriate and adding them from the vif_add_debugfs handler.
osv:CVE-2024-26637
Kernel
Fixed versions: 6.7.3
Complete source record
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