CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-68182

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.20%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the iwlwifi driver in the Linux kernel, a potential use-after-free (UAF) exists in iwl_mld_remove_link(), where the 'fw_id' field is read after freeing the 'link' structure.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves potential system crashes or security breaches due to UAF.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2025-68182.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS