CVE-2026-98335 (GCVE-0-2026-98335)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-06 08:46 – Updated: 2026-10-06 08:46
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Title
wifi: mac80211: abort chanswitch when leaving a mesh
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: abort chanswitch when leaving a mesh The code in ieee80211_stop_mesh() leaves CSA active, but leaving the mesh released the channel context, so the CSA finalize work crashes: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f] RIP: 0010:ieee80211_put_srates_elem+0x42/0x640 net/mac80211/util.c:3272 Call Trace: ieee80211_mesh_build_beacon+0xa83/0x1b50 net/mac80211/mesh.c:1093 ieee80211_mesh_rebuild_beacon+0xc7/0x170 net/mac80211/mesh.c:1147 ieee80211_mesh_finish_csa+0x131/0x210 net/mac80211/mesh.c:1542 ieee80211_set_after_csa_beacon net/mac80211/cfg.c:4085 [inline] __ieee80211_csa_finalize net/mac80211/cfg.c:4133 [inline] ieee80211_csa_finalize+0x633/0x1150 net/mac80211/cfg.c:4155 cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x2ab/0x450 net/wireless/core.c:438 Abort the channel switch properly.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: b8456a14e9d2770846fcf74de18ff95b676149a3 , < bc544ef02327edf61c94d2b6bae9d14b217009b2 (git)
Affected: b8456a14e9d2770846fcf74de18ff95b676149a3 , < 2e1d6e80148495e728a85a9250176f266312e55c (git)
Affected: b8456a14e9d2770846fcf74de18ff95b676149a3 , < d222fdc973bb8dbf0357772bd9042ffdc8291939 (git)
Affected: b8456a14e9d2770846fcf74de18ff95b676149a3 , < ac7472a24bd433b81c06582835dd1d5547c10da9 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.112 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.54 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.8 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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