CVE-2026-98710wifi: iwlegacy: 3945: free EEPROM data on remove
- —Not scoredno CVSS score yet
- 0.18%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 93% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlegacy: 3945: free EEPROM data on remove il3945_pci_probe() calls il_eeprom_init(), which allocates memory for the EEPROM data. The probe failure paths release this allocation with il_eeprom_free(), but the remove path does not free it after a successful probe. As a result, the EEPROM data is leaked when the PCI device is removed. Free the EEPROM data in il3945_pci_remove() before releasing the mac80211 hardware structure. This issue was found by manual code inspection.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 23 days later
· 23 days later
Published
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
No CVSS score yet: neither the CNA, CISA nor NVD has scored this CVE. NVD status: Received.
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.18% · top 93% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Not scored.
Affected products
- affected 073d3f5f1b3b6512eb82a3d40c84dedb14dc6f73 – < 52990dd317f76c1baa3665e3b1513cf3d4b48f5e
- affected 073d3f5f1b3b6512eb82a3d40c84dedb14dc6f73 – < a17d3fbca1731ae84c03a3dea0970f62f19757fb
- affected 073d3f5f1b3b6512eb82a3d40c84dedb14dc6f73 – < 39a3af97a23f6778887528c1fb4ffc60017ed0e6
- affected 073d3f5f1b3b6512eb82a3d40c84dedb14dc6f73 – < 3ebc529726c0c038f49e513a7a6f1893552ee803
- affected 073d3f5f1b3b6512eb82a3d40c84dedb14dc6f73 – < ab7bee2cd55f665cb29fa0ace2ec14020e0a452e
- affected 073d3f5f1b3b6512eb82a3d40c84dedb14dc6f73 – < cd8f8f45d81aac384311701d7ffe26567af2e783
- affected 073d3f5f1b3b6512eb82a3d40c84dedb14dc6f73 – < 89f9d6186dc7429f38132635526e28549c913c0b
- affected 073d3f5f1b3b6512eb82a3d40c84dedb14dc6f73 – < f8ebe286394c0bbb4a6dbacb182a34ab6376922d
- affected 2.6.27
- unaffected < 2.6.27
- unaffected 5.10.273 – ≤ 5.10.*
- unaffected 5.15.224 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 6.1.191 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.160 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.12.113 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.18.56 – ≤ 6.18.*
- unaffected 7.2.10 – ≤ 7.2.*
- unaffected 7.3 – ≤ *
References
References8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52990dd317f76c1baa3665e3b1513cf3d4b48f5e (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a17d3fbca1731ae84c03a3dea0970f62f19757fb (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39a3af97a23f6778887528c1fb4ffc60017ed0e6 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ebc529726c0c038f49e513a7a6f1893552ee803 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab7bee2cd55f665cb29fa0ace2ec14020e0a452e (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd8f8f45d81aac384311701d7ffe26567af2e783 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89f9d6186dc7429f38132635526e28549c913c0b (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8ebe286394c0bbb4a6dbacb182a34ab6376922d (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-103964 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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