5.5

CVE-2024-26693: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix a crash when we run out of stations

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26693DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26693
Published 03-04-2024Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-26693 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.24%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 5
RHSA-2024:3618RHSA-2024:3627USN-6895-1USN-6895-2USN-6895-3USN-6895-4

Timeline

  1. 03-04-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix a crash when we run out of stations A DoS tool that injects loads of authentication frames made our AP crash. The iwl_mvm_is_dup() function couldn't find the per-queue dup_data which was not allocated. The root cause for that is that we ran out of stations in the firmware and we didn't really add the station to the firmware, yet we didn't return an error to mac80211. Mac80211 was thinking that we have the station and because of that, sta_info::uploaded was set to 1. This allowed ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr() to return a valid station object, but that ieee80211_sta didn't have any iwl_mvm_sta object initialized and that caused the crash mentioned earlier when we got Rx on that station.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.24%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

16%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.24% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu75 products
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.13All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 57974a55d995468a9a476e24693eb741c649b25f, < 00f4eb31b8193f6070ce24df636883f9c104ca95 | ≥ 57974a55d995468a9a476e24693eb741c649b25f, < c12f0f4d4caf23b1bfdc2602b6b70d56bdcd6aa7 | ≥ 57974a55d995468a9a476e24693eb741c649b25f, < b7198383ef2debe748118996f627452281cf27d7 | 6.4
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.4, < 6.6.18 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.7.6 | 6.8:rc1 | 6.8:rc2 | 6.8:rc3 | 6.8:rc4
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.7.7-1

3 vendors · 78 products

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