wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: null RX pointers after free
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: null RX pointers after free When iwl_pcie_tx_init() fails after RX init, nic init unwinds via iwl_pcie_rx_free(). The freed RX members stayed non-NULL on the live transport object, so later teardown or retry could touch stale RX state. Set rx_pool, global_table, rxq, and alloc_page to NULL after free to make repeated cleanup and retry paths safe.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.111, 6.18.53, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-93796
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fgmq-vv8f-hphc
- 2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@c422d5d53f135ea987f745773953a91f9fe30c3f · CNA
- 2026-10-21 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@847103369489110a222482c7781e0fe62cdbd3d5 · CNA
- 2026-10-30 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/847103369489110a222482c7781e0fe62cdbd3d5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c422d5d53f135ea987f745773953a91f9fe30c3f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ec5bf430cf7466cb412e47f2761594092781fac
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3456c5bcc987aeb182e50e30c9b02be8420e9953
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c79d7a7b583050c9f58041465cb46fe3483ab5d
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Sources
- CVE-2026-93796 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-93796 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-fgmq-vv8f-hphc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-93796 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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