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fkie_cve-2025-68182

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-12-16 14:15

Modified

2025-12-18 15:08

Severity ?

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b4a239c9f94e1606435f1842fc6fd426d607dbb
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77e67d5daaf155f7d0f99f4e797c4842169ec19e

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2025-68182",
  "lastModified": "2025-12-18T15:08:25.907",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
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CVE-2025-68182 (GCVE-0-2025-68182)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-12-16 13:43

Modified

2025-12-16 13:43

Severity ?

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b4a239c9f94e1606435f1842fc6fd426d607dbb
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77e67d5daaf155f7d0f99f4e797c4842169ec19e

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Version: d1e879ec600f9b3bdd253167533959facfefb17b
Version: d1e879ec600f9b3bdd253167533959facfefb17b

Version: 6.15

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