CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-46125

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.30%

22th percentile - higher than 22% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's mac80211 subsystem, a vulnerability was found where a station is not removed after a failed MLO connection preparation. When MLO connection preparation fails, the interface is reset to non-MLD mode, but the existing station associated with the removed link is not deleted, leading to a use-after-free in debugfs.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could allow a local attacker to cause a system panic or potentially escalate privileges by exploiting the use-after-free bug in the debugfs interface.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit 5b6c6b7c8d9e). If an update is not possible, consider disabling debugfs (debugfs=off in kernel parameters) as a temporary workaround.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: remove station if connection prep fails If connection preparation fails for MLO connections, then the interface is completely reset to non-MLD. In this case, we must not keep the station since it's related to the link of the vif being removed. Delete an existing station. Any "new_sta" is already being removed, so that doesn't need changes. This fixes a use-after-free/double-free in debugfs if that's enabled, because a vif going from MLD (and to MLD, but that's not relevant here) recreates its entire debugfs.

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