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FKIE_CVE-2026-98341

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-10-06 09:18 - Updated: 2026-10-07 07:17

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: don't free driver-owned scan requests When an interface goes down while a scan is running, cfg80211 completes the scan towards userspace and frees the scan request. However, the driver can be convinced that it owns the request, since the cancellation is (intended to be) asynchronous. The WARN_ON() in the netdev notifier was meant to catch this, but it's not actually avoidable, so it triggers and we get a UAF in scan_done(). There doesn't seem to be a great way around it, so just track that the driver is still convinced it owns the request, and then just free it on completion if it was already cancelled. Also remove the warnings since they can trigger in the intended architecture.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf6da29d17994865f73ca70976495ea856909c63
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dab68a74e90b8e07f08ed9deaa5884857a3cfe89
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8c75736cfd0c6c87562cda2312e3fe5e2227955

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-98341 (GCVE-0-2026-98341)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-06 08:46 – Updated: 2026-10-07 06:50

Title

wifi: cfg80211: don't free driver-owned scan requests

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 54/100 over 6633 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8c75736cfd0c6c87…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf6da29d17994865f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dab68a74e90b8e07f…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4a58e7c38443154fce1b47910e1a9184f65c5d72 , < e8c75736cfd0c6c87562cda2312e3fe5e2227955 (git) Affected: 4a58e7c38443154fce1b47910e1a9184f65c5d72 , < cf6da29d17994865f73ca70976495ea856909c63 (git) Affected: 4a58e7c38443154fce1b47910e1a9184f65c5d72 , < dab68a74e90b8e07f08ed9deaa5884857a3cfe89 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 3.14 Unaffected: 0 , < 3.14 (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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