CVE-2026-23367 PUBLISHED

wifi: radiotap: reject radiotap with unknown bits

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.01.2026 Published: 25.03.2026 Updated: 25.03.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: radiotap: reject radiotap with unknown bits

The radiotap parser is currently only used with the radiotap namespace (not with vendor namespaces), but if the undefined field 18 is used, the alignment/size is unknown as well. In this case, iterator->_next_ns_data isn't initialized (it's only set for skipping vendor namespaces), and syzbot points out that we later compare against this uninitialized value.

Fix this by moving the rejection of unknown radiotap fields down to after the in-namespace lookup, so it will really use iterator->_next_ns_data only for vendor namespaces, even in case undefined fields are present.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 33e5a2f776e331dc8a4379b6efb660d38f182d96 to 703fa979badbba83d31cd011606d060bfb8b0d1d (excl.)
  • affected from 33e5a2f776e331dc8a4379b6efb660d38f182d96 to 129c8bb320a7cef692c78056ef8e89a2a12ba448 (excl.)
  • affected from 33e5a2f776e331dc8a4379b6efb660d38f182d96 to 2a60c588d5d39ad187628f58395c776a97fd4323 (excl.)
  • affected from 33e5a2f776e331dc8a4379b6efb660d38f182d96 to 2f8ceeba670610d66f77def32011f48de951d781 (excl.)
  • affected from 33e5a2f776e331dc8a4379b6efb660d38f182d96 to e664971759a0e5570b50c6592e58a7f97d55e992 (excl.)
  • affected from 33e5a2f776e331dc8a4379b6efb660d38f182d96 to c854758abe0b8d86f9c43dc060ff56a0ee5b31e0 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.34 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.34 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.167 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.130 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.77 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.17 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.7 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0-rc2 to * (incl.)

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