CVE-2026-68407 (GCVE-0-2026-68407)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-10 12:04
Modified
2026-08-19 16:35
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: nl80211: free RNR data on MBSSID mismatch nl80211_parse_beacon() rejects EMA RNR data when there are fewer RNR entries than MBSSID entries. The rejected RNR allocation has not been attached to the beacon data yet, so free it before returning the error.
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Linux Linux Version: 56189d7bc30531def6b999f27940ee43c6ff2569
Version: dbbb27e183b1568d5a907ace1cd144b0709ea52a
Version: dbbb27e183b1568d5a907ace1cd144b0709ea52a
Version: dbbb27e183b1568d5a907ace1cd144b0709ea52a
Version: dbbb27e183b1568d5a907ace1cd144b0709ea52a
Version: dbbb27e183b1568d5a907ace1cd144b0709ea52a
Version: 6.1.160   ≤
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