wifi: wcn36xx: Fix potential use-after-free in TX ack timer teardown (Linux Linux)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- Linux
- NVD status
- Received
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wcn36xx: Fix potential use-after-free in TX ack timer teardown wcn36xx_dxe_deinit() tears down the TX ack timer with timer_delete(), which only dequeues the timer and does not wait for a callback that is already executing; the preceding free_irq() calls synchronize the interrupt handlers only. The callback, wcn36xx_dxe_tx_timer(), can therefore be running past the teardown and use the wcn freed along with the ieee80211_hw in wcn36xx_remove(): it takes wcn->dxe_lock, reads wcn->tx_ack_skb and passes wcn->hw to ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe(). Fix this by using timer_shutdown_sync(), which waits for a running callback and also prevents the timer from being rearmed again. The timer is set up again by wcn36xx_dxe_init() on the next start, so the start/stop cycle is unaffected. This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/915298dbb766d2311b0822ab6ef24780def0bd53
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7f265d507ee55017b67ef4722df884468be1113
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ce1e55a439968a298a63d3199cb1c2636429746
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15e59e377facc87ce82228279d88efaa89fdbca5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3edabc965bcce49cbb2ec1c2b91f8a555a8ec8bd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bddc5d088cf430ecd913020472f1def32a36a3d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0df0878e9110909cf0bec6080d72d36401a0c89
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9be5e75530772fc31637070d51e5717d6aeaa2a
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-93120
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-98192
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1375 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Debian LTS · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1374 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Debian · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux · Linux | affected fdf21cc3714939dd4327f3d664fe5863d15ccb31 < 915298dbb766d2311b0822ab6ef24780def0bd53 ; affected fdf21cc3714939dd4327f3d664fe5863d15ccb31 < e7f265d507ee55017b67ef4722df884468be1113 ; affected fdf21cc3714939dd4327f3d664fe5863d15ccb31 < 7ce1e55a439968a298a63d3199cb1c2636429746 ; affected fdf21cc3714939dd4327f3d664fe5863d15ccb31 < 15e59e377facc87ce82228279d88efaa89fdbca5 ; affected fdf21cc3714939dd4327f3d664fe5863d15ccb31 < 3edabc965bcce49cbb2ec1c2b91f8a555a8ec8bd ; affected fdf21cc3714939dd4327f3d664fe5863d15ccb31 < 2bddc5d088cf430ecd913020472f1def32a36a3d |
| Linux · Linux | affected 5.10 ; unaffected 0 < 5.10 ; unaffected 5.10.273 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.224 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |