CVE-2026-53258 (GCVE-0-2026-53258)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-25 08:39 – Updated: 2026-06-25 08:39
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
wifi: fix leak if split 6 GHz scanning fails
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: fix leak if split 6 GHz scanning fails
rdev->int_scan_req is leaked if cfg80211_scan() fails. Note that it's
supposed to be released at ___cfg80211_scan_done() but this doesn't happen
as rdev->scan_req is NULL at that point, too, leading to the early return
from the freeing function.
unreferenced object 0xffff8881161d0800 (size 512):
comm "wpa_supplicant", pid 379, jiffies 4294749765
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 81 13 16 81 88 ff ff ................
backtrace (crc c867fdb6):
kmemleak_alloc+0x89/0x90
__kmalloc_noprof+0x2fd/0x410
cfg80211_scan+0x133/0x730
nl80211_trigger_scan+0xc69/0x1cc0
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x204/0x2f0
genl_rcv_msg+0x431/0x6b0
netlink_rcv_skb+0x143/0x3f0
genl_rcv+0x27/0x40
netlink_unicast+0x4f6/0x820
netlink_sendmsg+0x797/0xce0
__sock_sendmsg+0xc4/0x160
____sys_sendmsg+0x5e4/0x890
___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x180
__sys_sendmsg+0x136/0x1e0
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x76/0xc0
x64_sys_call+0x13f0/0x17d0
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
c8cb5b854b40f2ce52ccd032fa19750f4181d5fc , < fb8db813eba2e56ee001c9fb5c2ce2cb78c42642
(git)
Affected: c8cb5b854b40f2ce52ccd032fa19750f4181d5fc , < a24134ddc18b4d440714365637d440b7121447b9 (git) Affected: c8cb5b854b40f2ce52ccd032fa19750f4181d5fc , < e8694f7cc29287e843648d1075177b9a2000d957 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.10 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.36 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.13 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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