CVE-2026-90344 PUBLISHED

wifi: mac80211: disconnect on CSA to channel 0

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

wifi: mac80211: disconnect on CSA to channel 0

The refactor for the CSA parsing erroneously equates channel zero and no information present, leading it to ignore a CSA on an AP that advertises a switch to that (invalid) channel. This leads to not disconnecting, which we should. For Intel devices, this can lead to a firmware crash.

Fix this by using an int type for the channel number as well as the opclass, and using a (negative) value that cannot be encoded in the element to indicate it's not present.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 21c3f8f95554feff9bed15703e89adbe582e0383 to 099aadb2012d7490bc584cc5075ef11cbc33f2c3 (excl.)
  • affected from 21c3f8f95554feff9bed15703e89adbe582e0383 to e7bc5ab93acd1c3f54feeb9fa19ead3530168090 (excl.)
  • affected from 21c3f8f95554feff9bed15703e89adbe582e0383 to eef374088450bb91626e133c7172b8a0e969a522 (excl.)
  • affected from 21c3f8f95554feff9bed15703e89adbe582e0383 to cf57f0a674cc3e3cda1a789359cc1238b61b9d7d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.9 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.9 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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