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CVE-2024-35946wifi: rtw89: fix null pointer access when abort scan
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.21%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 88% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: fix null pointer access when abort scan During cancel scan we might use vif that weren't scanning. Fix this by using the actual scanning vif.
Timeline
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By Linux
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.21% · top 88% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd – < 96b49702bc0db9263c06840099b5008b72be919a
- affected e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd – < b34d64e9aa5505e3c84570aed5c757f1839573e8
- affected e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd – < 4f11c741908dab7dd48fa5a986b210d4fc74ca8d
- affected e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd – < 7e11a2966f51695c0af0b1f976a32d64dee243b2
- affected 5.16
- unaffected < 5.16
- unaffected 6.1.191 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.27 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.8.6 – ≤ 6.8.*
- unaffected 6.9 – ≤ *
References
References4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96b49702bc0db9263c06840099b5008b72be919a (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b34d64e9aa5505e3c84570aed5c757f1839573e8 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f11c741908dab7dd48fa5a986b210d4fc74ca8d (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e11a2966f51695c0af0b1f976a32d64dee243b2 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-35750 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-35946)Record last updated .