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CVE-2026-23444

5.5 medium SSVC exploitation: none Modified

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: always free skb on ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() failure ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() has three error paths, but only two of them free the skb. The first error path (ieee80211_tx_prepare() returning TX_DROP) does not free it, while invoke_tx_handlers() failure and the fragmentation check both do. Add kfree_skb() to the first error path so all three are consistent, and remove the now-redundant frees in callers (ath9k, mt76, mac80211_hwsim) to avoid double-free. Document the skb ownership guarantee in the function's kdoc.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.5 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-15 02:18

Affected (CPE criteria) 9

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.13:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 9