{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-72024","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2026-08-09T03:40:39.900Z","datePublished":"2026-08-15T05:51:49.270Z","dateUpdated":"2026-08-17T05:39:32.685Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-08-17T05:39:32.685Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmac802154: remove interfaces with RCU list deletion\n\nQueue wake, stop, and disable paths walk local->interfaces under RCU.\nThe bulk hardware teardown path removes entries with list_del(), so an\nasynchronous transmit completion can follow a poisoned list node in\nieee802154_wake_queue().\n\nUse list_del_rcu() as in the single-interface removal path. The following\nunregister_netdevice() waits for in-flight RCU readers before freeing the\nnetdevice, so no separate grace-period wait is needed."}],"metrics":[{"cvssV3_1":{"version":"3.1","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","baseScore":7.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH"},"scenarios":[{"lang":"en","value":"AV:L - Exploitation requires local syscalls to transmit on an IEEE 802.15.4 interface and concurrently tear down the mac802154 hardware (e.g., mac802154_hwsim DEL_RADIO or driver unregister); remote 802.15.4 frames do not reach ieee802154_remove_interfaces().\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race by concurrently sending traffic (sendmmsg on AF_IEEE802154) while deleting the radio/hardware; syzbot reliably reproduced the crash without external timing dependencies.\nPR:L - With mac802154_hwsim loaded, CAP_NET_ADMIN in a user namespace suffices to bring up wpan interfaces, transmit packets, and issue MAC802154_HWSIM_CMD_DEL_RADIO (GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM); AF_IEEE802154 sockets also require only namespace CAP_NET_ADMIN/CAP_NET_RAW.\nUI:N - No victim interaction is required; the attacker triggers the race entirely through their own netlink and socket operations without needing another user to perform any action.\nS:U - Impact is confined to kernel memory corruption and privilege boundaries within the same kernel; this is not a VM escape, IOMMU bypass, or cross-security-authority boundary violation.\nC:H - The RCU list walk in ieee802154_wake_queue() dereferences poisoned/freed list nodes (KASAN wild-memory-access at dead000000000218), constituting use-after-free class memory corruption that can expose adjacent kernel heap contents.\nI:H - Corrupted list traversal can pass attacker-influenced sdata/netdev pointers into netif_wake_queue(), enabling heap corruption primitives and potential control-flow hijacking beyond a simple crash.\nA:H - The syzbot reproducer causes a general protection fault kernel oops in ieee802154_release_queue(); the use-after-free class bug can panic or hang the system even when not fully exploited for code 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