# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64568"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-05T08:08:06.625Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:57:46.839Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64568"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64568.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64568"
title: "wifi: mac80211: fix unsol_bcast_probe_resp double free on alloc failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: fix unsol_bcast_probe_resp double free on alloc failure\n\nieee80211_set_unsol_bcast_probe_resp() calls kfree_rcu() on the old\ntemplate before allocating the replacement. If the kzalloc() then fails,\nit returns -ENOMEM while link-\u003eu.ap.unsol_bcast_probe_resp still points\nat the object already queued for freeing. A later update or AP teardown\nre-queues that same rcu_head; the second free is caught by KASAN when the\nRCU sheaf is processed in softirq:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: double-free in rcu_free_sheaf (mm/slub.c:5850)\n  Free of addr ffff88800d06f300 by task exploit/145\n   ...\n   __rcu_free_sheaf_prepare (mm/slub.c:2634 mm/slub.c:2940)\n   rcu_free_sheaf (mm/slub.c:5850)\n   rcu_core (kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869)\n   handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)\n  The buggy address belongs to the cache kmalloc-128 of size 128\n\nQueue the old object for kfree_rcu() only after the new one is published,\nmatching ieee80211_set_probe_resp() and ieee80211_set_s1g_short_beacon()."
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