CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-46069
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Undergoing Analysis
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 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: mwifiex: fix use-after-free in mwifiex_adapter_cleanup()
The mwifiex_adapter_cleanup() function uses timer_delete()
(non-synchronous) for the wakeup_timer before the adapter structure is
freed. This is incorrect because timer_delete() does not wait for any
running timer callback to complete.
If the wakeup_timer callback (wakeup_timer_fn) is executing when
mwifiex_adapter_cleanup() is called, the callback will continue to
access adapter fields (adapter->hw_status, adapter->if_ops.card_reset,
etc.) which may be freed by mwifiex_free_adapter() called later in the
mwifiex_remove_card() path.
Use timer_delete_sync() instead to ensure any running timer callback has
completed before returning.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.0 < 5.10.259)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.210)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.176)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.140)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.86)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.27)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/030abbae49cf9fd1fba7aa08e15ec81efbeb78cf Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11869ce402d95519d49b25a2a97741f68d69d103 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1958a92599b2653d730ccb6f5685fc3fbed21812 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e179a60a60c0a5aea245e8e67768343c0f070b8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63fe3389b3e092d6c0eeea9fc0318e7918b16618 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a88f5391dc68f78cae5eb6a8cd341cafee795d3d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae5e95d4157481693be2317e3ffcd84e36010cbb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3508895450cca4aeaf5dbadbb5e582363005264 Patch
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com