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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-21979

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 4/01/2025 12:15:29 PM

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Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: cfg80211: cancel wiphy_work before freeing wiphy

A wiphy_work can be queued from the moment the wiphy is allocated and
initialized (i.e. wiphy_new_nm). When a wiphy_work is queued, the
rdev::wiphy_work is getting queued.

If wiphy_free is called before the rdev::wiphy_work had a chance to run,
the wiphy memory will be freed, and then when it eventally gets to run
it'll use invalid memory.

Fix this by canceling the work before freeing the wiphy.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0272d4af7f92997541d8bbf4c51918b93ded6ee2
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72d520476a2fab6f3489e8388ab524985d6c4b90
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75d262ad3c36d52852d764588fcd887f0fcd9138
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5158d67bff06cb6fea31be39aeb319fd908ed8e
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dea22de162058216a90f2706f0d0b36f0ff309fd