# 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-2026-53258"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:47.917Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:42:19.486Z"
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-2026-53258"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53258.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53258"
title: "wifi: fix leak if split 6 GHz scanning fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: fix leak if split 6 GHz scanning fails\n\nrdev-\u003eint_scan_req is leaked if cfg80211_scan() fails.  Note that it's\nsupposed to be released at ___cfg80211_scan_done() but this doesn't happen\nas rdev-\u003escan_req is NULL at that point, too, leading to the early return\nfrom the freeing function.\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff8881161d0800 (size 512):\n  comm \"wpa_supplicant\", pid 379, jiffies 4294749765\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 81 13 16 81 88 ff ff  ................\n  backtrace (crc c867fdb6):\n    kmemleak_alloc+0x89/0x90\n    __kmalloc_noprof+0x2fd/0x410\n    cfg80211_scan+0x133/0x730\n    nl80211_trigger_scan+0xc69/0x1cc0\n    genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x204/0x2f0\n    genl_rcv_msg+0x431/0x6b0\n    netlink_rcv_skb+0x143/0x3f0\n    genl_rcv+0x27/0x40\n    netlink_unicast+0x4f6/0x820\n    netlink_sendmsg+0x797/0xce0\n    __sock_sendmsg+0xc4/0x160\n    ____sys_sendmsg+0x5e4/0x890\n    ___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x180\n    __sys_sendmsg+0x136/0x1e0\n    __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x76/0xc0\n    x64_sys_call+0x13f0/0x17d0\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org)."
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