CVE-2024-26779: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: fix race condition on enabling fast-xmit fast-xmit must only be enabled after the sta has been uploaded to the driver, otherwise it could end up passing the not-yet-uploaded sta via drv_tx calls to the driver, leading to potential crashes because of uninitialized drv_priv data. Add a missing sta->uploaded check and re-check fast xmit after inserting a sta.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 4.19.308 (fixed in 4.19.308); from 4.20, before 5.4.270 (fixed in 5.4.270); from 5.5, before 5.10.211 (fixed in 5.10.211); from 5.11, before 5.15.150 (fixed in 5.15.150); from 5.16, before 6.1.80 (fixed in 6.1.80); from 6.2, before 6.6.19 (fixed in 6.6.19); …

Published 2024-04-03. Last modified 2026-08-04.