CVE-2024-26637: wifi: ath11k: rely on mac80211 debugfs handling for vif

Description

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

wifi: ath11k: rely on mac80211 debugfs handling for vif

mac80211 started to delete debugfs entries in certain cases, causing a
ath11k to crash when it tried to delete the entries later. Fix this by
relying on mac80211 to delete the entries when appropriate and adding
them from the vif_add_debugfs handler.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-26637

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 11.44% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-03 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa74ce30a8a40d19a4256de4ae5322e71344a274
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/556857aa1d0855aba02b1c63bc52b91ec63fc2cc

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