wifi: mac80211: keep paired old chanctx alive (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-98708
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: keep paired old chanctx alive An in-place replacement keeps reciprocal replace_ctx pointers between the old WILL_BE_REPLACED chanctx and the new REPLACES_OTHER chanctx. However, the early free paths only consider assigned and reserved link users when deciding whether to free the old chanctx. That lets the old chanctx be freed too early while the replacement partner still points back to it, either when the last assigned link is released or when that link successfully reassigns to another existing context. Later unreserve and switch-finalization paths can then follow a stale replace_ctx pointer. Keep a paired old chanctx alive until the replacement pair has been torn down. Apply the same check to both __ieee80211_link_release_channel() and ieee80211_link_use_reserved_reassign(). If the replacement is later abandoned, ieee80211_link_unreserve_chanctx() already tears down the pairing before freeing the old chanctx once no users remain.

References

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f < 026ae72fa6d0f7e04951441026be473f22911b87 ; affected 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f < 624bf5338d8c2f55db455ce4f2543ca4a83fab03 ; affected 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f < 0fba8fbf5ab0bffc1866e5038aaab772d31d1584 ; affected 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f < 47864a9092fd6f6b3f312d1e5b233ecdc68b1bd8 ; affected 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f < 21a688cbeae0e682f03e91f1e7a7eedd60d9d4f2 ; affected 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f < 1c82d0c5d509179ba2a4edfa096f516aebf960b0
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.17 ; unaffected 0 < 3.17 ; unaffected 5.10.273 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.224 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD