CVE-2026-23444 — Multiple Releases of Same Resource or Handle in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 94.12%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 3
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: always free skb on ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() failure
ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() has three error paths, but only two of them
free the skb. The first error path (ieee80211_tx_prepare() returning
TX_DROP) does not free it, while invoke_tx_handlers() failure and the
fragmentation check both do.
Add kfree_skb() to the first error path so all three are consistent,
and remove the now-redundant frees in callers (ath9…
Affected Packages2 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux06be6b149f7e406bcf16098567f5a6c9f042bced — 06e769dddcbeb3baf2ce346273b53dd61fdbecf4+3
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-84pr-vgrv-386j: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: always free skb on ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() failure
ieee80211_↗2026-04-03
OSV▶
CVE-2026-23444: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: always free skb on ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() failure ieee80211_tx↗2026-04-03
📋Vendor Advisories
3Debian▶
CVE-2026-23444: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80...↗2026