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GHSA-WMXC-8XR9-G2QR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-06 09:31 – Updated: 2026-10-06 09:31

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

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

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

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

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc544ef02327edf61…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e1d6e80148495e72…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d222fdc973bb8dbf0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac7472a24bd433b81…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: b8456a14e9d2770846fcf74de18ff95b676149a3 , < bc544ef02327edf61c94d2b6bae9d14b217009b2 (git) Affected: b8456a14e9d2770846fcf74de18ff95b676149a3 , < 2e1d6e80148495e728a85a9250176f266312e55c (git) Affected: b8456a14e9d2770846fcf74de18ff95b676149a3 , < d222fdc973bb8dbf0357772bd9042ffdc8291939 (git) Affected: b8456a14e9d2770846fcf74de18ff95b676149a3 , < ac7472a24bd433b81c06582835dd1d5547c10da9 (git)
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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