CVE-2026-64570
7.8 HIGHPublished 2026-08-05 · Updated 2026-08-08
AI risk analysis
- Summary
- The vulnerability involves a double-free issue in the Linux kernel's mac80211 module when handling Fils Discovery, leading to potential memory corruption.
- Exploitability
- Exploitation requires specific conditions and kernel access, making it moderately difficult but still feasible for attackers with low privileges.
- Blast radius
- If exploited, this could lead to system instability or crashes affecting wireless network functionality on vulnerable systems.
- Prioritized remediation
- Update the Linux kernel to a patched version as soon as possible to mitigate the risk.
Analysis generated locally by qwen2.5:7b-instruct (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.
NVD description
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().
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
All references
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