In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mac802154: fix llsec key resources release in mac802154_llsec_key_del
mac802154_llsec_key_del() can free resources of a key directly without
following the RCU rules for waiting before the end of a grace period. This
may lead to use-after-free in case llsec_lookup_key() is traversing the
list of keys in parallel with a key deletion:
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 16000 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x162/0x2a0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 4 PID: 16000 Comm: wpan-ping Not tainted 6.7.0 #19
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x162/0x2a0
Call Trace:
llsec_lookup_key.isra.0+0x890/0x9e0
mac802154_llsec_encrypt+0x30c/0x9c0
ieee802154_subif_start_xmit+0x24/0x1e0
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x13e/0x690
sch_direct_xmit+0x2ae/0xbc0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x11dd/0x3c20
dgram_sendmsg+0x90b/0xd60
__sys_sendto+0x466/0x4c0
__x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0x45/0xf0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
Also, ieee802154_llsec_key_entry structures are not freed by
mac802154_llsec_key_del():
unreferenced object 0xffff8880613b6980 (size 64):
comm "iwpan", pid 2176, jiffies 4294761134 (age 60.475s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
78 0d 8f 18 80 88 ff ff 22 01 00 00 00 00 ad de x.......".......
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 cd ab 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e2/0x2d0
[] kmalloc_trace+0x25/0xc0
[] mac802154_llsec_key_add+0xac9/0xcf0
[] ieee802154_add_llsec_key+0x5a/0x80
[] nl802154_add_llsec_key+0x426/0x5b0
[] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1fe/0x2f0
[] genl_rcv_msg+0x531/0x7d0
[] netlink_rcv_skb+0x169/0x440
[] genl_rcv+0x28/0x40
[] netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x820
[] netlink_sendmsg+0x93b/0xe60
[] ____sys_sendmsg+0xac5/0xca0
[] ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1c0
[] __sys_sendmsg+0xfa/0x1d0
[] do_syscall_64+0x45/0xf0
[] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
Handle the proper resource release in the RCU callback function
mac802154_llsec_key_del_rcu().
Note that if llsec_lookup_key() finds a key, it gets a refcount via
llsec_key_get() and locally copies key id from key_entry (which is a
list element). So it's safe to call llsec_key_put() and free the list
entry after the RCU grace period elapses.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-28). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it