High 7.5Published Dec 16, 2025

CVE-2025-68182wifi: iwlwifi: fix potential use after free in iwl_mld_remove_link()

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 10:23 UTC)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: fix potential use after free in iwl_mld_remove_link() This code frees "link" by calling kfree_rcu(link, rcu_head) and then it dereferences "link" to get the "link->fw_id". Save the "link->fw_id" first to avoid a potential use after free.

CVSS: 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Oct 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	from d1e879ec600f9b3bdd253167533959facfefb17b before 5b4a239c9f94e1606435f1842fc6fd426d607dbb; from d1e879ec600f9b3bdd253167533959facfefb17b before 77e67d5daaf155f7d0f99f4e797c4842169ec19e	CNA record

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b4a239c9f94e1606435f1842fc6fd426d607dbb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77e67d5daaf155f7d0f99f4e797c4842169ec19e

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