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FKIE_CVE-2026-72004

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-15 06:20 - Updated: 2026-08-17 06:17

Severity

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_register_hw() If kmemdup() fails while copying supported band structures, the error path jumps to fail_rate. This skips rate_control_deinitialize() and leaks the initialized local->rate_ctrl. Fix this by adding a fail_band label that shares the rate-control cleanup path before falling through to the remaining teardown. The bug was first flagged by an experimental analysis tool we are developing for kernel memory-management bugs while analyzing v6.13-rc1. The tool is still under development and is not yet publicly available. Manual inspection confirms that the bug is still present in v7.1-rc7. An x86_64 allyesconfig build showed no new warnings. As we do not have a suitable mac80211 device/driver combination to test with, no runtime testing was able to be performed.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08b71bd92317f99642b842cfc0d30200868162fc
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d8b9b290421c3cd505fcd2f551f143f8142786a
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45e9ac538cdff7bce656d731114a64eda85af0d7
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95fc02722edde02946d0d475221f2b2054d3d8ba
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a02b52fe54f7b5107aefa1ce28c2f69749c57616
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7584f261e64fe14e45bdf70f343e16c1ee3a037
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdc0b8bfdc142439d6708b072e8159eb515ee7b0
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f01eec75fd372961550b928902f3a2c11fca1daf

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-72004 (GCVE-0-2026-72004)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:51 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:06

Title

wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_register_hw()

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f01eec75fd3729615…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d8b9b290421c3cd5…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08b71bd92317f9964…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a02b52fe54f7b5107…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45e9ac538cdff7bce…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdc0b8bfdc142439d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7584f261e64fe14e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95fc02722edde0294…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 09b4a4faf9d037990ac4f8110dd944b27b42d5df , < f01eec75fd372961550b928902f3a2c11fca1daf (git) Affected: 09b4a4faf9d037990ac4f8110dd944b27b42d5df , < 3d8b9b290421c3cd505fcd2f551f143f8142786a (git) Affected: 09b4a4faf9d037990ac4f8110dd944b27b42d5df , < 08b71bd92317f99642b842cfc0d30200868162fc (git) Affected: 09b4a4faf9d037990ac4f8110dd944b27b42d5df , < a02b52fe54f7b5107aefa1ce28c2f69749c57616 (git) Affected: 09b4a4faf9d037990ac4f8110dd944b27b42d5df , < 45e9ac538cdff7bce656d731114a64eda85af0d7 (git) Affected: 09b4a4faf9d037990ac4f8110dd944b27b42d5df , < bdc0b8bfdc142439d6708b072e8159eb515ee7b0 (git) Affected: 09b4a4faf9d037990ac4f8110dd944b27b42d5df , < a7584f261e64fe14e45bdf70f343e16c1ee3a037 (git) Affected: 09b4a4faf9d037990ac4f8110dd944b27b42d5df , < 95fc02722edde02946d0d475221f2b2054d3d8ba (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.20 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.20 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2026-72004 (GCVE-0-2026-72004)

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