CVE-2026-64117 (GCVE-0-2026-64117)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 15:40 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:39
VLAI
Title
wifi: mac80211: capture fast-RX rate before mesh reuses skb->cb
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: capture fast-RX rate before mesh reuses skb->cb ieee80211_invoke_fast_rx() reads RX status through IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb), which aliases the same skb->cb storage that ieee80211_rx_mesh_data() reuses as IEEE80211_TX_INFO. In the unicast forward path, mesh_data does: info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(fwd_skb); memset(info, 0, sizeof(*info)); on the same skb the caller still names via rx->skb, then either queues the skb for TX (success) or kfree_skb()'s it (no-route) before returning RX_QUEUED. The caller's RX_QUEUED arm then calls sta_stats_encode_rate(status) on memory that is either zeroed (success path) or freed (no-route path). The latter is KASAN slab-use-after-free in ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle. Fix by encoding the rate from status before invoking ieee80211_rx_mesh_data(), so the RX_QUEUED arm consumes a value captured while status was still backed by valid memory.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 3468e1e0c639032a603450f0830ccabfa76f5806 , < 2fb64f94f9afb774f2fa0c7835727d7a67f89f07 (git)
Affected: 3468e1e0c639032a603450f0830ccabfa76f5806 , < d71c841be5d9e586ee7f36c0dc8ed4db0d9a1349 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.11 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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