CVE-2026-74661

Summary

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

mac802154: fix netdev use-after-free in beacon worker

mac802154_beacon_worker() reads local->beacon_req under RCU and derives the sub-interface from the request, but then drops the RCU read lock and continues to use both sdata and the embedded wpan_dev.

mac802154_stop_beacons_locked() cancels only pending beacon work, clears local->beacon_req and frees the request. A beacon worker that is already running can therefore continue after interface teardown and dereference the freed netdev private area.

The scan worker already pins the netdev before leaving RCU. Apply the same lifetime rule to the beacon worker: take a netdev reference while the request is still protected by RCU, and release it on all paths that continue after the reference is acquired.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux3accf4762734a69ebd03cba989249c78ac7dfc7e < fe820dcc1d8ff77783a9d2bcc93b98c99ac6d517affected
LinuxLinux3accf4762734a69ebd03cba989249c78ac7dfc7e < e5fb0e03bc7f45508c182a427357bf6b389a9033affected
LinuxLinux3accf4762734a69ebd03cba989249c78ac7dfc7e < e6cd416a899edc912b428c4ba399bd73f516cb31affected
LinuxLinux3accf4762734a69ebd03cba989249c78ac7dfc7e < 9d067e581597c462c51fee8a30b51bc48a68c4e1affected
LinuxLinux3accf4762734a69ebd03cba989249c78ac7dfc7e < 5f26a690e8efa54315e4922368daf54e0b8f5515affected
LinuxLinux6.3affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.3unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.152 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.104 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.45 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.9 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

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