CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98710
- 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: iwlegacy: 3945: free EEPROM data on remove
il3945_pci_probe() calls il_eeprom_init(), which allocates memory for
the EEPROM data. The probe failure paths release this allocation with
il_eeprom_free(), but the remove path does not free it after a
successful probe.
As a result, the EEPROM data is leaked when the PCI device is removed.
Free the EEPROM data in il3945_pci_remove() before releasing the
mac80211 hardware structure.
This issue was found by manual code inspection.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ebc529726c0c038f49e513a7a6f1893552ee803 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89f9d6186dc7429f38132635526e28549c913c0b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab7bee2cd55f665cb29fa0ace2ec14020e0a452e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd8f8f45d81aac384311701d7ffe26567af2e783 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8ebe286394c0bbb4a6dbacb182a34ab6376922d git.kernel.org