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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.10.2. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component mac80211. The manipulation leads to denial of service. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-43848. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.10.2. This vulnerability affects an unknown code of the component mac80211. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: fix TTLM teardown work The worker calculates the wrong sdata pointer, so if it ever runs, it'll crash. Fix that.

The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-43848 since 08/17/2024. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 6.10.3 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 9750899410c8/2fe0a605d083 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Linux

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• Kernel

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• 6.10.0
• 6.10.1
• 6.10.2

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• open-source

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