# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53097"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:35.223Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:41:57.624Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53097"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53097.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53097"
title: "wifi: mt76: mt7996: fix use-after-free bugs in mt7996_mac_dump_work()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mt76: mt7996: fix use-after-free bugs in mt7996_mac_dump_work()\n\nWhen the mt7996 pci chip is detaching, the mt7996_crash_data is\nreleased in mt7996_coredump_unregister(). However, the work item\ndump_work may still be running or pending, leading to UAF bugs\nwhen the already freed crash_data is dereferenced again in\nmt7996_mac_dump_work().\n\nThe race condition can occur as follows:\n\nCPU 0 (removal path)               | CPU 1 (workqueue)\nmt7996_pci_remove()                | mt7996_sys_recovery_set()\n mt7996_unregister_device()        |  mt7996_reset()\n  mt7996_coredump_unregister()     |   queue_work()\n   vfree(dev-\u003ecoredump.crash_data) | mt7996_mac_dump_work()\n                                   |  crash_data-\u003e // UAF\n\nFix this by ensuring dump_work is properly canceled before\nthe crash_data is deallocated. Add cancel_work_sync() in\nmt7996_unregister_device() to synchronize with any pending\nor executing dump work."
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