CVE-2026-46187

wifi: rsi: fix kthread lifetime race between self-exit and external-stop

MEDIUM 4.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.10 % · percentile 1 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rsi: fix kthread lifetime race between self-exit and external-stop RSI driver use both self-exit(kthread_complete_and_exit) and external-stop (kthread_stop) when killing a kthread. Generally, kthread_stop() is called first, and in this case, no particular issues occur. However, in rare instances where kthread_complete_and_exit() is called first and then kthread_stop() is called, a UAF occurs because the kthread object, which has already exited and been freed, is accessed again. Therefore, to prevent this with minimal modification, you must remove kthread_stop() and change the code to wait until the self-exit operation is completed.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 4c62764d0fc21a34ffc44eec1210038c3a2e4473 < 4ac3095da22fc50e51ec10c3b8323c21ab3e441a ; affected 4c62764d0fc21a34ffc44eec1210038c3a2e4473 < 9dfe8a4458a063c6433526bc59112a169eee1aa3 ; affected 4c62764d0fc21a34ffc44eec1210038c3a2e4473 < 4f697813162d5f9151726a6d2bee82bffe4b0256 ; affected 4c62764d0fc21a34ffc44eec1210038c3a2e4473 < 95fcb436586dc3c2983537d557ac05bbc6a027f3 ; affected 4c62764d0fc21a34ffc44eec1210038c3a2e4473 < 16d9f674c619838bdeae42abc0929c9c5477ea1f ; affected 4c62764d0fc21a34ffc44eec1210038c3a2e4473 < 4f9a4ae8d2c198f01611ea376034c326ef43ab56
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.20 ; unaffected 0 < 4.20 ; unaffected 5.10.258 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.209 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.175 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.140 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD