Vulnerability CVE-2024-35838
Published: 2024-05-17

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: fix potential sta-link leak

When a station is allocated, links are added but not
set to valid yet (e.g. during connection to an AP MLD),
we might remove the station without ever marking links
valid, and leak them. Fix that.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49aaeb8c539b1633b3bd7c2df131ec578aa1eae1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/587c5892976108674bbe61a8ff659de279318034
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e04bf59bdba0fa45d52160be676114e16be855a9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b01a74b3ca6fd51b62c67733ba7c3280fa6c5d26
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