CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-93796

HighCVSS 7.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.12%

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

Summary

In the Linux kernel iwlwifi driver (pcie subsystem), after a failed TX init, the RX resources are freed but the pointers are not set to NULL. This can lead to use-after-free during later cleanup or retry.

Risk Assessment

Use-after-free could lead to system crashes or potentially privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Install the updated Linux kernel with the fix that nulls RX pointers after free.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: null RX pointers after free When iwl_pcie_tx_init() fails after RX init, nic init unwinds via iwl_pcie_rx_free(). The freed RX members stayed non-NULL on the live transport object, so later teardown or retry could touch stale RX state. Set rx_pool, global_table, rxq, and alloc_page to NULL after free to make repeated cleanup and retry paths safe.

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