5.5

CVE-2024-26896: linux Out-of-bounds Read

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-26896DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26896
Published 17-04-2024Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-26896 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.22%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 14 · Related 15
SUSE-SU-2024:1644-1SUSE-SU-2024:1659-1SUSE-SU-2024:1663-1USN-6816-1USN-6817-1USN-6817-2

Timeline

  1. 17-04-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wfx: fix memory leak when starting AP Kmemleak reported this error: unreferenced object 0xd73d1180 (size 184): comm "wpa_supplicant", pid 1559, jiffies 13006305 (age 964.245s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1e 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<5ca11420>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x20c/0x5ac [<127bdd74>] __alloc_skb+0x144/0x170 [<fb8a5e38>] __netdev_alloc_skb+0x50/0x180 [<0f9fa1d5>] __ieee80211_beacon_get+0x290/0x4d4 [mac80211] [<7accd02d>] ieee80211_beacon_get_tim+0x54/0x18c [mac80211] [<41e25cc3>] wfx_start_ap+0xc8/0x234 [wfx] [<93a70356>] ieee80211_start_ap+0x404/0x6b4 [mac80211] [<a4a661cd>] nl80211_start_ap+0x76c/0x9e0 [cfg80211] [<47bd8b68>] genl_rcv_msg+0x198/0x378 [<453ef796>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xd0/0x130 [<6b7c977a>] genl_rcv+0x34/0x44 [<66b2d04d>] netlink_unicast+0x1b4/0x258 [<f965b9b6>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1e8/0x428 [<aadb8231>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1e0/0x274 [<d2b5212d>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x80/0xb4 [<69954f45>] __sys_sendmsg+0x64/0xa8 unreferenced object 0xce087000 (size 1024): comm "wpa_supplicant", pid 1559, jiffies 13006305 (age 964.246s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 10 00 07 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...@............ backtrace: [<9a993714>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x230/0x600 [<f83ea192>] kmalloc_reserve.constprop.0+0x30/0x74 [<a2c61343>] __alloc_skb+0xa0/0x170 [<fb8a5e38>] __netdev_alloc_skb+0x50/0x180 [<0f9fa1d5>] __ieee80211_beacon_get+0x290/0x4d4 [mac80211] [<7accd02d>] ieee80211_beacon_get_tim+0x54/0x18c [mac80211] [<41e25cc3>] wfx_start_ap+0xc8/0x234 [wfx] [<93a70356>] ieee80211_start_ap+0x404/0x6b4 [mac80211] [<a4a661cd>] nl80211_start_ap+0x76c/0x9e0 [cfg80211] [<47bd8b68>] genl_rcv_msg+0x198/0x378 [<453ef796>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xd0/0x130 [<6b7c977a>] genl_rcv+0x34/0x44 [<66b2d04d>] netlink_unicast+0x1b4/0x258 [<f965b9b6>] netlink_sendmsg+0x1e8/0x428 [<aadb8231>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1e0/0x274 [<d2b5212d>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x80/0xb4 However, since the kernel is build optimized, it seems the stack is not accurate. It appears the issue is related to wfx_set_mfp_ap(). The issue is obvious in this function: memory allocated by ieee80211_beacon_get() is never released. Fixing this leak makes kmemleak happy.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

12%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.22% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.22%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu105 products
  • linux< 5.15.0-160.170 | < 6.8.0-35.35
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1095.102 | < 6.8.0-1009.9
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 268bceec1684932e194ae87877dcc73f534d921c, < a1f57a0127b89a6b6620514564aa7eaec16d9af3 | ≥ 268bceec1684932e194ae87877dcc73f534d921c, < 3a71ec74e5e3478d202a1874f085ca3ef40be49b | ≥ 268bceec1684932e194ae87877dcc73f534d921c, < 12f00a367b2b62756e0396f14b54c2c15524e1c3 | ≥ 268bceec1684932e194ae87877dcc73f534d921c, < dadbb5d29d6c5f571a50272fce8c1505a9559487 | ≥ 268bceec1684932e194ae87877dcc73f534d921c, < b8cfb7c819dd39965136a66fe3a7fde688d976fc | 5.10
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.10, < 6.1.83 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.23 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.7.11 | ≥ 6.8, < 6.8.2
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.85-1 | < 6.7.12-1

3 vendors · 108 products

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