CVE-2026-64570 (GCVE-0-2026-64570)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-05 08:08 – Updated: 2026-08-08 15:13
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Title
wifi: mac80211: fix fils_discovery double free on alloc failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: fix fils_discovery double free on alloc failure ieee80211_set_fils_discovery() calls kfree_rcu() on the old template before allocating the replacement. If the kzalloc() then fails, it returns -ENOMEM while link->u.ap.fils_discovery still points at the object already queued for freeing. A later update or AP teardown (ieee80211_stop_ap()) re-queues that same rcu_head; the second free is caught by KASAN when the RCU sheaf is processed in softirq: BUG: KASAN: double-free in rcu_free_sheaf (mm/slub.c:5850) Free of addr ffff88800c065280 by task swapper/0/0 ... __rcu_free_sheaf_prepare (mm/slub.c:2634 mm/slub.c:2940) rcu_free_sheaf (mm/slub.c:5850) rcu_core (kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869) handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622) The buggy address belongs to the cache kmalloc-96 of size 96 Queue the old object for kfree_rcu() only after the new one is published, matching ieee80211_set_probe_resp() and ieee80211_set_s1g_short_beacon().
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: 3b1c256eb4aedfc71dd97d5951ccff824b41d628 , < e2c55079155a953db669ca1986a985fa286bad95 (git)
Affected: 3b1c256eb4aedfc71dd97d5951ccff824b41d628 , < 5baaa1042f71dd4b8e418f2cdd516808702d229b (git)
Affected: 3b1c256eb4aedfc71dd97d5951ccff824b41d628 , < 1981fba71797ec95e6755fb882cad88899a2a84f (git)
Affected: 3b1c256eb4aedfc71dd97d5951ccff824b41d628 , < 286e52a799fa158bdbd77da1426c4d93f9a6e7ad (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2-rc4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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