Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2026

CVE-2026-98710

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.

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/89f9d6186dc7429f38132635526e28549c913c0bnvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab7bee2cd55f665cb29fa0ace2ec14020e0a452envd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd8f8f45d81aac384311701d7ffe26567af2e783nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8ebe286394c0bbb4a6dbacb182a34ab6376922dnvd

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