CVE-2025-68182
High
wifi: iwlwifi: fix potential use after free in iwl_mld_remove_link()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: fix potential use after free in iwl_mld_remove_link() This code frees "link" by calling kfree_rcu(link, rcu_head) and then it dereferences "link" to get the "link->fw_id". Save the "link->fw_id" first to avoid a potential use after free.
Exploit probability
0.2%
Published
December 16, 2025
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
04 / EVIDENCE
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Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2025-68182
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: fix potential use after free in iwl_mld_remove_link() This code frees "link" by calling kfree_rcu(link, rcu_head) and then it dereferences "link" to get the "link->fw_id". Save the "link->fw_id" first to avoid a potential use after free.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b4a239c9f94e1606435f1842fc6fd426d607dbb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77e67d5daaf155f7d0f99f4e797c4842169ec19e
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/68xxx/CVE-2025-68182.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68182