Bug 2492834 (CVE-2026-53258) - CVE-2026-53258 kernel: wifi: fix leak if split 6 GHz scanning fails
Summary: CVE-2026-53258 kernel: wifi: fix leak if split 6 GHz scanning fails
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-53258
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-06-25 10:08 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-29 14:46 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-25 10:08:12 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: fix leak if split 6 GHz scanning fails

rdev->int_scan_req is leaked if cfg80211_scan() fails.  Note that it's
supposed to be released at ___cfg80211_scan_done() but this doesn't happen
as rdev->scan_req is NULL at that point, too, leading to the early return
from the freeing function.

unreferenced object 0xffff8881161d0800 (size 512):
  comm "wpa_supplicant", pid 379, jiffies 4294749765
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 81 13 16 81 88 ff ff  ................
  backtrace (crc c867fdb6):
    kmemleak_alloc+0x89/0x90
    __kmalloc_noprof+0x2fd/0x410
    cfg80211_scan+0x133/0x730
    nl80211_trigger_scan+0xc69/0x1cc0
    genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x204/0x2f0
    genl_rcv_msg+0x431/0x6b0
    netlink_rcv_skb+0x143/0x3f0
    genl_rcv+0x27/0x40
    netlink_unicast+0x4f6/0x820
    netlink_sendmsg+0x797/0xce0
    __sock_sendmsg+0xc4/0x160
    ____sys_sendmsg+0x5e4/0x890
    ___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x180
    __sys_sendmsg+0x136/0x1e0
    __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x76/0xc0
    x64_sys_call+0x13f0/0x17d0

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-06-29 14:44:38 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026062515-CVE-2026-53258-50dc@gregkh/T


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