CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98707
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: shut down RX BA session timer on teardown
Tearing down an RX BA session can leave the session timer queued on a
freed tid_rx. Later timer-wheel processing and the timer callback itself
then run against freed memory.
An RX BAR handler can dereference tid_rx under RCU before teardown
unpublishes it and stay in its read-side critical section while teardown
deletes the session timer. The stale handler can then rearm the timer
after timer_delete_sync() returns and before the RCU callback frees
tid_rx.
Use timer_shutdown_sync() so rearm attempts become ineffective once
teardown starts. Keep reorder_timer unchanged: teardown marks the session
removed under reorder_lock and its release path checks that state before
rearming. session_timer has no equivalent guard because
ieee80211_rx_h_ctrl() rearms it before taking reorder_lock.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09b7d5e4f88504e62ddf4ff31ebeebb3b87578ba git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/481f9230284c27052b59c587069f232c5d84779e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bb2a5bd4f07192fca35644fab7d49a17bfbc861 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0da6ab1fc53a68025929baf0947519c6c1684dc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e588e83e5c7a0f6d7a77dbbb58927c8c8cfd598e git.kernel.org