CVE-2026-68409

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A reader that resolved link_sta before the removal keeps the\npointer. The container stays alive from the kfree_rcu, so the read still\nworks. But the percpu block it points to is already freed. This needs\nuses_rss. That is when pcpu_rx_stats exists.\n\nThe full STA teardown frees the deflink stats only after\nsynchronize_net(). The link removal path had no such barrier. 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A rogue AP or frame injector within radio range of the victim station suffices, so this is adjacent (Wi-Fi) rather than routable network access.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race \u2014 it supplies the RX traffic stream that dereferences link_sta and writes pcpu_rx_stats, and it triggers the MLO link removal that frees that percpu block \u2014 and can repeat link add/remove cycles indefinitely under high packet rates spread across many CPUs by RSS. No condition outside the attacker's influence is needed beyond a mainstream RSS-capable MLO driver (iwlwifi, ath11k/ath12k).\nPR:N - No privileges or accounts on the victim system are required; the frames come from the peer AP, and a rogue AP or spoofed ML reconfiguration/data frames reach the code with no authorization on the target host.\nUI:N - Frame reception, MLO link reconfiguration and station link teardown are all handled automatically by mac80211 with no action by the device's user.\nS:U - The use-after-free corrupts kernel memory within the same kernel security authority; no VM, IOMMU or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - The freed percpu block can be reallocated to other subsystems, and the RX path continues reading fields such as last_signal, chains and counters from it, so attacker-influenced reuse of that memory can expose kernel data; per use-after-free scoring this is treated as high confidentiality impact.\nI:H - The RX fast path performs repeated writes (last_rx, last_rate, fragments, packets, chain_signal_last) into the already-freed percpu allocation, corrupting whatever percpu data is reallocated there \u2014 an attacker-timed write primitive into arbitrary recycled kernel state.\nA:H - Writing through a freed percpu pointer from the RX hot path corrupts kernel allocator state and unrelated percpu data, readily producing oopses or panics; 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{"bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: Kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in mac80211 Wi-Fi driver", "id": "2513299", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2513299"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "7.1", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-825", "details": ["In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nwifi: mac80211: defer link RX stats percpu free to RCU\nsta_remove_link() frees a removed MLO link's RX stats percpu buffer right\naway, but defers only the link container to RCU:\nsta_info_free_link(&alloc->info);\nkfree_rcu(alloc, rcu_head);\nThe RX fast path reads link_sta under rcu_read_lock and writes the percpu\nstats. A reader that resolved link_sta before the removal keeps the\npointer. The container stays alive from the kfree_rcu, so the read still\nworks. But the percpu block it points to is already freed. This needs\nuses_rss. That is when pcpu_rx_stats exists.\nThe full STA teardown frees the deflink stats only after\nsynchronize_net(). The link removal path had no such barrier. The race is\nhard to win in practice, but the free should still wait for RCU.\nFree the link together with its data from a single RCU callback, so the\npercpu block is reclaimed only after readers drain.", "A flaw was found in the mac80211 Wi-Fi driver of the Linux kernel. When an MLO (Multi-Link Operation) link is removed, the RX statistics per-CPU buffer is freed immediately, while the link container is deferred to RCU (Read-Copy-Update). This timing issue can lead to a use-after-free vulnerability, where a reader might still access the freed memory. While difficult to exploit in practice, this could potentially lead to system instability or denial of service."], "name": "CVE-2026-68409", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux_nvidia:", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "rhcos", "product_name": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4"}], "public_date": "2026-08-10T12:04:29Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68409\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68409\nhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2aa1789880fa5e41049b0f6a74a4fc2fa1997610\nhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a03fceae0c65b31ce31840dac5e26684ceecb65b\nhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa2eb62525188269cdd402a583b9a8ed94657ff0"], "threat_severity": "Important"}

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