CVE-2025-21979
wifi: cfg80211: cancel wiphy_work before freeing wiphy
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7.8EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
01 Apr 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0272d4af7f92997541d8bbf4c51918b93ded6ee2https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72d520476a2fab6f3489e8388ab524985d6c4b90https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75d262ad3c36d52852d764588fcd887f0fcd9138https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8930a3e1568cf534f86c8ed2def817c6d0528fc1https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5158d67bff06cb6fea31be39aeb319fd908ed8ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dea22de162058216a90f2706f0d0b36f0ff309fdhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html