# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46069"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:57:50.213Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:20:20.801Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46069"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46069.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46069"
title: "wifi: mwifiex: fix use-after-free in mwifiex_adapter_cleanup()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mwifiex: fix use-after-free in mwifiex_adapter_cleanup()\n\nThe mwifiex_adapter_cleanup() function uses timer_delete()\n(non-synchronous) for the wakeup_timer before the adapter structure is\nfreed. This is incorrect because timer_delete() does not wait for any\nrunning timer callback to complete.\n\nIf the wakeup_timer callback (wakeup_timer_fn) is executing when\nmwifiex_adapter_cleanup() is called, the callback will continue to\naccess adapter fields (adapter-\u003ehw_status, adapter-\u003eif_ops.card_reset,\netc.) which may be freed by mwifiex_free_adapter() called later in the\nmwifiex_remove_card() path.\n\nUse timer_delete_sync() instead to ensure any running timer callback has\ncompleted before returning."
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