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CVE-2026-90346

wifi: nl80211: clean up color-change beacon data on errors

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Fix
Fixed in 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.57, 7.2.6
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: nl80211: clean up color-change beacon data on errors nl80211_color_change() calls nl80211_parse_beacon() for the beacon_next template, which can allocate params.beacon_next.mbssid_ies and .rnr_ies. A parsing failure returned directly instead of using the out: cleanup, leaking any allocations completed before the error. Allocate the nested attribute table before parsing beacon_next. Its allocation failure can then return before beacon data exists, while a later parsing failure uses out: to release the parsed data.

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    Version range not reported

  • Linux Linux

    5.16

  • KernelLinux

    From 5.16.0 · fixed in 6.6.160; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.114; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.57; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.2.6

References 6

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