CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-23336
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-03-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: cfg80211: cancel rfkill_block work in wiphy_unregister()
There is a use-after-free error in cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces found
by syzkaller:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces+0x213/0x220
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888112a78d98 by task kworker/0:5/5326
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5326 Comm: kworker/0:5 Not tainted 6.19.0-rc2 #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events cfg80211_rfkill_block_work
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0
print_report+0xcd/0x630
kasan_report+0xe0/0x110
cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces+0x213/0x220
cfg80211_rfkill_block_work+0x1e/0x30
process_one_work+0x9cf/0x1b70
worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10
kthread+0x3c5/0x780
ret_from_fork+0x56d/0x700
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
The problem arises due to the rfkill_block work is not cancelled when wiphy
is being unregistered. In order to fix the issue cancel the corresponding
work in wiphy_unregister().
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.31.1 < 5.10.253)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.203)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.167)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.130)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.77)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.17)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.7)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.31
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57e39fe8da573435fa35975f414f4dc17d9f8449 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/584279ad9ff1e8e7c5494b9fce286201f7d1f9e2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/767d23ade706d5fa51c36168e92a9c5533c351a1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82a35356b5c1f75fe6a8a561db44e8d0e49da8f9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2e9626a9d16b9bbbd06498c9e73c93be354dc7a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd2f52944c7b95dcdfe0d87f385a2d96458a3ae5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eeea8da43ab86ac0a6b9cec225eec91564346940 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa18639deab4a3662d543200c5bfc29bf4e23173 Patch
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com