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CVE-2026-68404

7.8 high SSVC exploitation: none Published

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: use wiphy work for socket owner autodisconnect nl80211_netlink_notify() walks the cfg80211 wireless device list when a NETLINK_GENERIC socket is released. If the socket owns a connection, the notifier queues the embedded wdev->disconnect_wk work item. That work is a plain work_struct today. NETDEV_GOING_DOWN cancels it, but a NETLINK_URELEASE notifier that already observed conn_owner_nlportid can queue it after that cancel returns. _cfg80211_unregister_wdev() then removes the wdev from the list and waits for RCU readers, but synchronize_net() does not drain work queued by such a reader. Make the autodisconnect work a wiphy_work instead. The callback already needs the wiphy mutex, and wiphy_work runs under that mutex. This lets teardown cancel pending autodisconnect work while holding the mutex, without a cancel_work_sync() vs. worker locking concern. Also cancel the wiphy work after list_del_rcu() and synchronize_net(). Any NETLINK_URELEASE notifier that had already reached the wdev list has then either queued the work and it is removed, or can no longer find the wdev.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 6

  1. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-21 12:44
  2. References+2 references (now 5)NVD modified 2026-10-21 13:19
  3. StatusPublished → ReceivedNVD modified 2026-10-21 13:19
  4. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-19 21:09
  5. CwesCWE-662NVD modified 2026-10-19 22:17
  6. First seenCVSS 7.8NVD modified 2026-10-15 11:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 5