CVE-2025-37796

Published May 1, 2025

Last updated 2 months ago

Overview

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: at76c50x: fix use after free access in at76_disconnect The memory pointed to by priv is freed at the end of at76_delete_device function (using ieee80211_free_hw). But the code then accesses the udev field of the freed object to put the USB device. This may also lead to a memory leak of the usb device. Fix this by using udev from interface.
Source
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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  1. CVE-2025-37796 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: at76c50x: fix use after free access in at76_disconnect The memory pointed to by priv is fr… https://t.co/DjbZ9PNgqQ

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    1 May 2025

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