GHSA-4hrq-jxxx-hj3h
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published April 1, 2025
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.
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Timeline
- Apr 1, 2025 CVE Published
- May 1, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21979 advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0272d4af7f92997541d8bbf4c51918b93ded6ee2 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72d520476a2fab6f3489e8388ab524985d6c4b90 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75d262ad3c36d52852d764588fcd887f0fcd9138 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dea22de162058216a90f2706f0d0b36f0ff309fd url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8930a3e1568cf534f86c8ed2def817c6d0528fc1 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5158d67bff06cb6fea31be39aeb319fd908ed8e url
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html url