CVE-2024-27052

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-416 Use After Free

Publication date:

01/05/2024

Last modified:

08/04/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtl8xxxu: add cancel_work_sync() for c2hcmd_work The workqueue might still be running, when the driver is stopped. To avoid a use-after-free, call cancel_work_sync() in rtl8xxxu_stop().

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.40 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.40

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.214 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.153 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.83 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.23 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.7.11 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.8 (including)	6.8.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*

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CVE-2024-27052

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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