CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68198
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/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: ath6kl: fix use-after-free in aggr_reset_state()
The aggr_reset_state() function uses timer_delete() (non-synchronous)
for the aggregation timer before proceeding to delete TID state and
before the structure is freed by callers like aggr_module_destroy().
If the timer callback (aggr_timeout) is executing when aggr_reset_state()
is called, the callback will continue to access aggr_conn fields like
rx_tid[] and stat[] which may be freed immediately after by
kfree(aggr_info->aggr_conn) in aggr_module_destroy().
Additionally, the timer callback can re-arm itself via mod_timer() while
aggr_reset_state() is running, creating a more complex race condition.
Use timer_delete_sync() instead to ensure any running timer callback
has completed before returning.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17ff29cd8dbc977c97788a5f7c011ec807b58242 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18965470d41e69d3fc10eb62afae29d10f4cdfd1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2132a6db05846dd2318857d00e0c1291f9e41b29 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64af6534a085f49d6ed33338a19ab9cf0d0523c9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1bac650b2d6b1baab1f3e78e2e007a6e2948dde git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3313111b5d9046af60b370c93eec105b27380c1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5d618fd61b9069b4c0a6b487022dd3117ad5acc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba7debb4dd6427386862220e8335a53a4bfc235d git.kernel.org