CVE-2024-38563: wifi: mt76: mt7996: fix potential memory leakage when reading chip temperature
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2024-38563 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13.2% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 10 · Related 10Timeline
- 19-06-2024PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: fix potential memory leakage when reading chip temperature Without this commit, reading chip temperature will cause memory leakage.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.22%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
13%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.22% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu82 products
- linux< 6.8.0-40.40
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws< 6.8.0-1013.14
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ 6879b2e94172ed80394dd49d410814ad427d1ca0, < 84e81f9b4818b8efe89beb12a246d5d510631939 | ≥ 6879b2e94172ed80394dd49d410814ad427d1ca0, < ef46dbb93fc9279fb7de883aac22abffe214e6b5 | ≥ 6879b2e94172ed80394dd49d410814ad427d1ca0, < 474b9412f33be87076b40a49756662594598a85e | 6.8
- linux_kernel≥ 6.8, < 6.8.12 | ≥ 6.9, < 6.9.3
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.8.12-1
3 vendors · 85 products
