CVE-2026-64568

wifi: mac80211: fix unsol_bcast_probe_resp double free on alloc failure

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Aug 5, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

wifi: mac80211: fix unsol_bcast_probe_resp double free on alloc failure

ieee80211_set_unsol_bcast_probe_resp() calls kfree_rcu() on the old template before allocating the replacement. If the kzalloc() then fails, it returns -ENOMEM while link->u.ap.unsol_bcast_probe_resp still points at the object already queued for freeing. A later update or AP teardown re-queues that same rcu_head; the second free is caught by KASAN when the RCU sheaf is processed in softirq:

BUG: KASAN: double-free in rcu_free_sheaf (mm/slub.c:5850) Free of addr ffff88800d06f300 by task exploit/145 ... __rcu_free_sheaf_prepare (mm/slub.c:2634 mm/slub.c:2940) rcu_free_sheaf (mm/slub.c:5850) rcu_core (kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869) handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622) The buggy address belongs to the cache kmalloc-128 of size 128

Queue the old object for kfree_rcu() only after the new one is published, matching ieee80211_set_probe_resp() and ieee80211_set_s1g_short_beacon().

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 3b1c256eb4aedfc71dd97d5951ccff824b41d628 to before ca27a81cd77b698e5eb586a011bee6800c7ee4bdAffected
  • 3b1c256eb4aedfc71dd97d5951ccff824b41d628 to before d62b55b7c7dc62887d7fd5648fb38f0bfaef53aeAffected
  • 3b1c256eb4aedfc71dd97d5951ccff824b41d628 to before 0ace76e410d7f7d813b605825a3e593a79c3958fAffected
  • 3b1c256eb4aedfc71dd97d5951ccff824b41d628 to before 1d067abcd37062426c59ec73dbc4e87a63f33feaAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.7Affected
  • before 6.7Not affected
  • 6.12.101 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.42 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.6 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

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