CVE-2026-98709 (GCVE-0-2026-98709)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-18 15:46 – Updated: 2026-10-30 12:39
VLAI
Title
wifi: mac80211: count only matching reservations in reserved switch
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: count only matching reservations in reserved switch ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_switch() validates a replacement by counting assigned links on ctx->replace_ctx and treating reservations too broadly. A link can still be assigned to the old channel context while holding a reservation that belongs to a different replacement operation. That can make the current replacement appear complete too early. If another link finalizes first, the function can free the WILL_BE_REPLACED chanctx while the unmatched link and driver still use it, leading to a use-after-free in later beacon generation. Require an in-place reservation to point at the current replacement context, and require the reserved and assigned contexts to be the matching replacement pair, before counting or moving the link.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f , < 4c4671a706d2d85442a30850abfada5377ffbbc8 (git)
Affected: 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f , < 183cc72ae9467717afba8b8d194a558a6666cb53 (git)
Affected: 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f , < b3d9f582f98e06070d5233b177b2899b693a01ec (git)
Affected: 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f , < 4ae6ed5b6074df5f3da05fd74c40bb24c5c9b41d (git)
Affected: 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f , < d31f655e44631891788ca67018ec5e1ed1c7de86 (git)
Affected: 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f , < 03525b632908b049f4d04cc8a71cdff2329589cf (git)
Affected: 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f , < 5cc54a000960bc88f8c58940164dca0e601ab39c (git)
Affected: 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f , < 437f3727b4fd715266c296435c116288f82666fd (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.273 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.224 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.191 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.113 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.56 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.10 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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