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CVE-2024-58072: wifi: rtlwifi: remove unused check_buddy_priv

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.21% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Linux Linux 006e803af7408c3fc815b0654fc5ab43d34f0154, 1b9cbd8a9ae68b32099fbb03b2d5ffa0c5e0dcc9, 1e39b0486cdb496cdfba3bc89886150e46acf6f4.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 006e803af7408c3fc815b0654fc5ab43d34f0154, 1b9cbd8a9ae68b32099fbb03b2d5ffa0c5e0dcc9, 1e39b0486cdb496cdfba3bc89886150e46acf6f4 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtlwifi: remove unused check_buddy_priv Commit 2461c7d60f9f ("rtlwifi: Update header file") introduced a global list of private data structures. Later on, commit 26634c4b1868 ("rtlwifi Modify existing bits to match vendor version 2013.02.07") started adding the private data to that list at probe time and added a hook, check_buddy_priv to find the private data from a similar device. However, that function was never used. Besides, though there is a lock for that list, it is never used. And when the probe fails, the private data is never removed from the list. This would cause a second probe to access freed memory. Remove the unused hook, structures and members, which will prevent the potential race condition on the list and its corruption during a second probe when probe fails.

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

BDU:2025-12102

Published: Mar 6, 2025
Updated: Nov 5, 2026
EPSS: 0.2% · 11th percentile
CWE: CWE-416

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
linux	linux kernel	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

linux linux kernel3.10 and later · before 5.4.291
linux linux kernel5.5 and later · before 5.10.235
linux linux kernel5.11 and later · before 5.15.179
linux linux kernel5.16 and later · before 6.1.129
linux linux kernel6.2 and later · before 6.6.76
linux linux kernel6.7 and later · before 6.12.13
linux linux kernel6.13 and later · before 6.13.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Linux Linux
- 3.10affected
- 26634c4b1868323f49f8cd24c3493b57819867fd and later · before f801e754efa21bd61b3cc15ec7565696165b272faffected · git
- 26634c4b1868323f49f8cd24c3493b57819867fd and later · before 1b9cbd8a9ae68b32099fbb03b2d5ffa0c5e0dcc9affected · git
- 26634c4b1868323f49f8cd24c3493b57819867fd and later · before 8e2fcc68fbaab3ad9f5671fee2be0956134b740aaffected · git
- 26634c4b1868323f49f8cd24c3493b57819867fd and later · before 1e39b0486cdb496cdfba3bc89886150e46acf6f4affected · git
- 26634c4b1868323f49f8cd24c3493b57819867fd and later · before 465d01ef6962b82b1f0ad1f3e58b398dbd35c1c1affected · git
- 26634c4b1868323f49f8cd24c3493b57819867fd and later · before 543e3e9f2e9e47ded774c74e680f28a0ca362aeeaffected · git
- 26634c4b1868323f49f8cd24c3493b57819867fd and later · before 006e803af7408c3fc815b0654fc5ab43d34f0154affected · git
- 26634c4b1868323f49f8cd24c3493b57819867fd and later · before 2fdac64c3c35858aa8ac5caa70b232e03456e120affected · git
- before 3.10not affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Debian:12	linux	before 6.1.129-1	6.1.129-1
Debian:13	linux	before 6.12.13-1	6.12.13-1

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-58068Mar 6, 2025 · OPP: fix dev_pm_opp_find_bw_*() when bandwidth table not initialized
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Later →CVE-2024-58074Mar 6, 2025 · drm/i915: Grab intel_display from the encoder to avoid potential oopsies
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Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Linux Linux	006e803af7408c3fc815b0654fc5ab43d34f0154	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	1b9cbd8a9ae68b32099fbb03b2d5ffa0c5e0dcc9	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	1e39b0486cdb496cdfba3bc89886150e46acf6f4	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	2fdac64c3c35858aa8ac5caa70b232e03456e120	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	465d01ef6962b82b1f0ad1f3e58b398dbd35c1c1	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	543e3e9f2e9e47ded774c74e680f28a0ca362aee	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	8e2fcc68fbaab3ad9f5671fee2be0956134b740a	Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux	f801e754efa21bd61b3cc15ec7565696165b272f	Vendor (CNA)
debian:linux	6.1.129-1 · Debian:12	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-416 · Use After Free

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-416 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1free(dev->buf);
2/* ... another thread is still running ... */
3process(dev->buf);

Fixed

1lock(&dev->lock);
2free(dev->buf);
3dev->buf = NULL;
4unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

SSVC exploitation— → noneNov 5, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC
Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/006e803af7408c3fc815b0654fc5ab43d34f0154

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