CVE-2024-26666 (GCVE-0-2024-26666)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-04-02 06:22
Modified
2026-08-05 11:26
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: fix RCU use in TDLS fast-xmit This looks up the link under RCU protection, but isn't guaranteed to actually have protection. Fix that.
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