CVE-2026-98195 PUBLISHED

wifi: iwlegacy: fix broadcast stations deallocation

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

wifi: iwlegacy: fix broadcast stations deallocation

On the error path of __il4965_up(), il_dealloc_bcast_stations() clears only IL_STA_UCODE_ACTIVE, leaving IL_STA_BCAST set. This causes the same broadcast stations to be deallocated again by __il4965_down().

This can occur when RF_KILL is toggled during driver startup.

To fix clear the entire 'used' field, since we will not do any other operations on the station.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from c2fd34469d1623111e3c3db65cde533f3bddc26e to 275d474a4b4bd4e73b18b1452f12e78806a8843a (excl.)
  • affected from c2fd34469d1623111e3c3db65cde533f3bddc26e to 526fdd45548e22eee50ee1062abd88269d9f32e0 (excl.)
  • affected from c2fd34469d1623111e3c3db65cde533f3bddc26e to c9a116d691364cd7f59d8329b395adcaf826d5c6 (excl.)
  • affected from c2fd34469d1623111e3c3db65cde533f3bddc26e to 85d847ff71fe736cbc15ada321256818e630e205 (excl.)
  • affected from c2fd34469d1623111e3c3db65cde533f3bddc26e to 1d84c2a3de449aceb94ed79eaefecdf1bedb6468 (excl.)
  • affected from c2fd34469d1623111e3c3db65cde533f3bddc26e to 55d34422c0d91436983028fd3c1546a1c2bee55f (excl.)
  • affected from c2fd34469d1623111e3c3db65cde533f3bddc26e to a9176fe666af1730cab92350f9c8cf67ebf14439 (excl.)
  • affected from c2fd34469d1623111e3c3db65cde533f3bddc26e to b5526b780f8b297a76030410b96ba29153afb98f (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.7 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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