CVE-2026-98709 PUBLISHED

wifi: mac80211: count only matching reservations in reserved switch

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: 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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f to d31f655e44631891788ca67018ec5e1ed1c7de86 (excl.)
  • affected from 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f to 03525b632908b049f4d04cc8a71cdff2329589cf (excl.)
  • affected from 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f to 5cc54a000960bc88f8c58940164dca0e601ab39c (excl.)
  • affected from 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f to 437f3727b4fd715266c296435c116288f82666fd (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.17 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.17 (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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