CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-53097
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-06-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- 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: mt76: mt7996: fix use-after-free bugs in mt7996_mac_dump_work()
When the mt7996 pci chip is detaching, the mt7996_crash_data is
released in mt7996_coredump_unregister(). However, the work item
dump_work may still be running or pending, leading to UAF bugs
when the already freed crash_data is dereferenced again in
mt7996_mac_dump_work().
The race condition can occur as follows:
CPU 0 (removal path) | CPU 1 (workqueue)
mt7996_pci_remove() | mt7996_sys_recovery_set()
mt7996_unregister_device() | mt7996_reset()
mt7996_coredump_unregister() | queue_work()
vfree(dev->coredump.crash_data) | mt7996_mac_dump_work()
| crash_data-> // UAF
Fix this by ensuring dump_work is properly canceled before
the crash_data is deallocated. Add cancel_work_sync() in
mt7996_unregister_device() to synchronize with any pending
or executing dump work.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.4 < 6.12.91)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/180182a3f23ff79430a32ca2c4c1885368ceab48 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/188e10f9ea3109d23c6b7643aa6ec2f5cb0faa6d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/533b1a9fa0128c75e40dd2d2c38a32b4e660741f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa4a31cd89f4fde5043ac613fe0e27014a60a60b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8f62f73bbced3a79894655bdb0b625462d956fc Patch