skb memory ownership

  1. CVE-2026-23444 Fix: mac80211 skb Ownership Cleanup Prevents Double-Free

    In Linux’s wireless stack, CVE-2026-23444 is a narrowly scoped but important mac80211 fix that closes an ownership bug around skb cleanup in ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb(). The issue is not a classic remote-code-execution headline, but it is exactly the kind of kernel bug that can destabilize...
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