CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-74368
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath12k: fix memory leak in ath12k_wifi7_dp_rx_h_verify_tkip_mic()
In ath12k_wifi7_dp_rx_h_verify_tkip_mic(), the call to
ath12k_dp_rx_check_nwifi_hdr_len_valid() may return false when the
NWIFI header length is invalid, causing the function to abort early with
-EINVAL.
When this happens, the error propagates to
ath12k_wifi7_dp_rx_h_defrag(), which clears first_frag by setting it
to NULL. As a result, the corresponding MSDU is no longer referenced
by the defragmentation path and is never freed.
This leads to a memory leak for the affected MSDU on this error path.
Proper cleanup is required to ensure the MSDU is released when header
validation fails during TKIP MIC verification.
Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.1.c5-00302-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-1.115823.3
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5187a92099778501f21af76ed6c8415d128e7298 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55c6f05b667726d2da5fd011d646fb48ce5b6b9c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/779ab501dc8f1148b3f10740a68335741bdc5ffe git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98d4f92ab6a1af2ea2ab590d7e2801b203110981 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d960cd5dbcc6a01f49cc304b724f6b18a63a172d git.kernel.org