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Vulnerability · Published Jun 8, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2024-36970wifi: iwlwifi: Use request_module_nowait

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 3% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 96.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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]

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-36970

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux f5c31bcf604db54470868f3118a60dc4a9ba8813 – before d20013259539e2fde2deeac85354851097afdf9ef5c31bcf604db54470868f3118a60dc4a9ba8813 – before 3d913719df14c28c4d3819e7e6d150760222bda4
Linux Linux 6.9

References