CVE-2026-98822 PUBLISHED

wifi: mac80211: prevent AP VLAN tx from other interfaces

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: prevent AP VLAN tx from other interfaces

Since the station lookup was factored out of ieee80211_build_hdr(), ieee80211_lookup_ra_sta() uses sta_info_get_bss() for all AP and AP VLAN frames, not only for control port frames. A unicast frame sent on one interface thus matches a station of a different VLAN of the same BSS and is transmitted to it.

Only match stations of the interface the frame is sent on, except for control port frames, since those may be sent for VLAN stations directly on the BSS interface.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 97ffe75791b3e9c0797d5891070e41321c3beccb to fd875e24e8f2b202e3636b3ef8e6060874eca0e5 (excl.)
  • affected from 97ffe75791b3e9c0797d5891070e41321c3beccb to 88e96d902efeefbffc34450969f40dc61a0c8a42 (excl.)
  • affected from 97ffe75791b3e9c0797d5891070e41321c3beccb to ad61b9a5febb42e4b96df8d30ad76ddc36dda9d0 (excl.)
  • affected from 97ffe75791b3e9c0797d5891070e41321c3beccb to 7f93ca31f7fd9b42e7d692f59514436d448ac908 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.1 (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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