CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-74661

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel mac802154 subsystem, the beacon worker reads local->beacon_req under RCU but continues to use sdata and wpan_dev after leaving the RCU section. This can lead to use-after-free after interface teardown.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability could cause a system crash or potential privilege escalation due to use-after-free.

Recommendation

Apply the kernel patch that takes a netdev reference before leaving the RCU section in the beacon worker.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mac802154: fix netdev use-after-free in beacon worker mac802154_beacon_worker() reads local->beacon_req under RCU and derives the sub-interface from the request, but then drops the RCU read lock and continues to use both sdata and the embedded wpan_dev. mac802154_stop_beacons_locked() cancels only pending beacon work, clears local->beacon_req and frees the request. A beacon worker that is already running can therefore continue after interface teardown and dereference the freed netdev private area. The scan worker already pins the netdev before leaving RCU. Apply the same lifetime rule to the beacon worker: take a netdev reference while the request is still protected by RCU, and release it on all paths that continue after the reference is acquired.

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