CVE-2024-36970 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: iwlwifi: Use request_module_nowait

This appears to work around a deadlock regression that came in
with the LED merge in 6.9.

The deadlock happens on my system with 24 iwlwifi radios, so maybe
it something like all worker threads are busy and some work that needs
to complete cannot complete.

[also remove unnecessary "load_module" var and now-wrong comment]

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0002.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d913719df14c28c4d3819e7e6d150760222bda4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d20013259539e2fde2deeac85354851097afdf9e
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024060855-CVE-2024-36970-2eb9@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36970
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36970

History

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
Weaknesses		CWE-667
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2024-06-08T13:01:03.077Z

Updated: 2025-05-04T09:13:05.497Z

Reserved: 2024-05-30T15:25:07.082Z

Link: CVE-2024-36970

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T03:43:50.567Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-06-08T13:15:58.260

Modified: 2025-02-03T15:51:47.613

Link: CVE-2024-36970

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-06-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-36970 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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