CVE-2026-93149

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211_hwsim: avoid NULL skb in stop queue drain mac80211_hwsim_stop() drops any frames left in data->pending. The loop currently checks skb_queue_empty() and then dequeues separately. That split is racy with TX status handling, which can remove a pending frame under the queue lock. If the last entry is removed after the empty check, skb_dequeue() returns NULL and the stop path passes that NULL skb to ieee80211_free_txskb(). Use skb_dequeue() as the loop condition instead. The dequeue result is the object that stop owns and frees, and a concurrent status completion that empties the queue simply makes the loop terminate.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7fccad2c8e6ef6bbafe509c95869d161d0f466b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d131027054a8dd922dda01fe8d381abe5af4970b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c40ba47f2ba1951cb32ea048667ed014d36a5749

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2817431a61557f46dc63077b7cc126bc906c242e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c2a4ab6efa26415dd131b8c222e7893fda03435

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/158438cd6ad69d6dd7d871582c38baf22169fede

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-17

Updated: 2026-09-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00205