{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2024-10-21T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: wifi: rtw88: always wait for both firmware loading attempts",
    "id" : "2320235",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2320235"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.4",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-416",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nwifi: rtw88: always wait for both firmware loading attempts\nIn 'rtw_wait_firmware_completion()', always wait for both (regular and\nwowlan) firmware loading attempts. Otherwise if 'rtw_usb_intf_init()'\nhas failed in 'rtw_usb_probe()', 'rtw_usb_disconnect()' may issue\n'ieee80211_free_hw()' when one of 'rtw_load_firmware_cb()' (usually\nthe wowlan one) is still in progress, causing UAF detected by KASAN.", "A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel's mac80211-based wireless driver when firmware loading fails. This issue could allow a local user to crash the system as result of driver failure on an error path during power on." ],
  "statement" : "The failure can only happen during boot (power on of specific hardware) and as result of failure for this hardware (on error path). As a result, the security impact is limited, for example, only for cases when a local user has full access to this hardware.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2025-05-13T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:6966",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-570.12.1.el9_6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2025-05-13T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:6966",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-570.12.1.el9_6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47718\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47718\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102121-CVE-2024-47718-c7cd@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2024-47718",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "To mitigate this issue, prevent the rtw88 module from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}