Bug 2540509 (CVE-2026-93796) - CVE-2026-93796 kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: null RX pointers after free
Summary: CVE-2026-93796 kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: null RX pointers after free
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-93796
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-09-24 17:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-28 11:46 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-24 17:04:09 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: null RX pointers after free

When iwl_pcie_tx_init() fails after RX init, nic init unwinds via
iwl_pcie_rx_free().

The freed RX members stayed non-NULL on the live transport object,
so later teardown or retry could touch stale RX state.
Set rx_pool, global_table, rxq, and alloc_page to NULL after free
to make repeated cleanup and retry paths safe.


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