CVE-2026-98702 PUBLISHED

wifi: mac80211: reject invalid 320 MHz CSA bandwidth

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

wifi: mac80211: reject invalid 320 MHz CSA bandwidth

The HT/VHT channel definition validator can receive a 320 MHz bandwidth indication from a received CSA frame on a non-6 GHz link. It warns for this unsupported width but continues with an uninitialized vht_operation.chan_width, which is then read by ieee80211_chandef_vht_oper(). With panic_on_warn enabled, this lets a received frame panic the kernel.

Reject the channel definition before entering the VHT operation conversion. This preserves the existing CSA fallback while avoiding both the warning and the uninitialized read.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 21c3f8f95554feff9bed15703e89adbe582e0383 to cf0ddacce173890407ed3fa50c8ea9b3c0cc0e16 (excl.)
  • affected from 21c3f8f95554feff9bed15703e89adbe582e0383 to 1892e71aa2e5ee667d87c6e49e3661f5e290303b (excl.)
  • affected from 21c3f8f95554feff9bed15703e89adbe582e0383 to 79b3ce0d881cd6e5d4d3496b19f5cc5e7089a56c (excl.)
  • affected from 21c3f8f95554feff9bed15703e89adbe582e0383 to 56e236759f0a8dc910c2ae7cd3c161f298ee5794 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.9 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.9 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.113 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.56 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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