CVE-2026-31394 (GCVE-0-2026-31394)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-03 15:15 – Updated: 2026-04-03 15:15
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Title
mac80211: fix crash in ieee80211_chan_bw_change for AP_VLAN stations
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mac80211: fix crash in ieee80211_chan_bw_change for AP_VLAN stations ieee80211_chan_bw_change() iterates all stations and accesses link->reserved.oper via sta->sdata->link[link_id]. For stations on AP_VLAN interfaces (e.g. 4addr WDS clients), sta->sdata points to the VLAN sdata, whose link never participates in chanctx reservations. This leaves link->reserved.oper zero-initialized with chan == NULL, causing a NULL pointer dereference in __ieee80211_sta_cap_rx_bw() when accessing chandef->chan->band during CSA. Resolve the VLAN sdata to its parent AP sdata using get_bss_sdata() before accessing link data. [also change sta->sdata in ARRAY_SIZE even if it doesn't matter]
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Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 65c25b588994dd422fea73fa322de56e1ae4a33b (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 5a86d4e920d9783a198e39cf53f0e410fba5fbd6 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 3c6629e859a2211a1fbb4868f915413f80001ca5 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 672e5229e1ecfc2a3509b53adcb914d8b024a853 (git)
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    Linux Linux Unaffected: 6.12.78 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.20 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.10 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0-rc5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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