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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80947" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:18.282Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:47:17.715Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-80947" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80947.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80947" title: "wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix use-after-free from rx_urb_wq on stop" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: rtl8xxxu: fix use-after-free from rx_urb_wq on stop\n\nrtl8xxxu arms rx_urb_wq from the RX completion path:\nrtl8xxxu_rx_complete() hands the URB to rtl8xxxu_queue_rx_urb(), which\nqueues it on rx_urb_pending_list and, once the list grows past\nRTL8XXXU_RX_URB_PENDING_WATER, schedules rx_urb_wq. The worker\nrtl8xxxu_rx_urb_work() drains rx_urb_pending_list, recovers priv through\ncontainer_of, and resubmits each URB through rtl8xxxu_submit_rx_urb(),\nwhich anchors it on rx_anchor and dereferences priv-\u003eudev.\n\nrtl8xxxu_stop() cancels the sibling work items (c2hcmd_work, ra_watchdog,\nupdate_beacon_work) but never cancels rx_urb_wq, so a worker armed during\nthe last burst of RX traffic can run rtl8xxxu_rx_urb_work() after\nrtl8xxxu_disconnect() has called ieee80211_free_hw(), which frees priv,\nproducing a use-after-free. The window opens under active RX traffic\n(pending count above the watermark) followed by a disconnect.\n\nThere are two teardown races to close:\n\n * rtl8xxxu_queue_rx_urb() decided whether to enqueue under rx_urb_lock\n but called schedule_work() after dropping the lock. A completion\n that observed shutdown == false and released the lock could then call\n schedule_work() after rtl8xxxu_stop() had set shutdown and\n cancel_work_sync() had already returned, arming the worker to run\n after the teardown. Move schedule_work() under the same !shutdown\n branch so the arming decision is atomic with the shutdown check.\n\n * rtl8xxxu_rx_urb_work() anchors every URB it drained back onto\n rx_anchor through rtl8xxxu_submit_rx_urb(). A worker still running\n when usb_kill_anchored_urbs(&priv-\u003erx_anchor) returned would submit a\n URB that escaped the kill. In rtl8xxxu_stop(), call\n cancel_work_sync(&priv-\u003erx_urb_wq) before the kill so the worker is\n drained first.\n\nAfter priv-\u003eshutdown is set under rx_urb_lock, completions can no longer\nqueue rx_urb_wq. cancel_work_sync() then drains the last queued or running\nworker, and the following usb_kill_anchored_urbs() kills the URBs it may\nhave submitted.\n\nrtl8xxxu_disconnect() is covered because ieee80211_unregister_hw()\nguarantees .stop() runs for a live interface before ieee80211_free_hw()\nfrees priv. The probe error path needs no cancel: rx_urb_wq is\nINIT_WORK()'d there but cannot have been scheduled, since no URB is\nsubmitted before ieee80211_register_hw() succeeds.\n\nThis bug was found by static analysis." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"26f1fad29ad973b0fb26a9ca3dcb2a73dde781aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17d5ae58973122eea7625a87cd3d80a8beb23b47"},{"version":"26f1fad29ad973b0fb26a9ca3dcb2a73dde781aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"800d2b490a9af1e7132a3564c2ad5a81292e5b40"},{"version":"26f1fad29ad973b0fb26a9ca3dcb2a73dde781aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"620acb1e8037b73a457dc8ef20fc23fc7adcb405"},{"version":"26f1fad29ad973b0fb26a9ca3dcb2a73dde781aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"972ab8b9c08f3eb3fa535082de2950dd93604dfd"},{"version":"26f1fad29ad973b0fb26a9ca3dcb2a73dde781aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c080026ecc17eecb103f8927c64ea73a74bb818"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.4"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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