CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-90344
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
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.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/099aadb2012d7490bc584cc5075ef11cbc33f2c3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf57f0a674cc3e3cda1a789359cc1238b61b9d7d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7bc5ab93acd1c3f54feeb9fa19ead3530168090 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eef374088450bb91626e133c7172b8a0e969a522 git.kernel.org