CVE-2025-68182 (GCVE-0-2025-68182)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 13:43 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:10
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Title
wifi: iwlwifi: fix potential use after free in iwl_mld_remove_link()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: fix potential use after free in iwl_mld_remove_link() This code frees "link" by calling kfree_rcu(link, rcu_head) and then it dereferences "link" to get the "link->fw_id". Save the "link->fw_id" first to avoid a potential use after free.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: d1e879ec600f9b3bdd253167533959facfefb17b , < 5b4a239c9f94e1606435f1842fc6fd426d607dbb (git)
Affected: d1e879ec600f9b3bdd253167533959facfefb17b , < 77e67d5daaf155f7d0f99f4e797c4842169ec19e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.8 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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