CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98327
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: mesh: reset the CSA state when leaving
ifmsh->csa is allocated in ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon() and only freed
in ieee80211_mesh_finish_csa(), i.e. when the channel switch completes.
Leaving the mesh while a switch is still pending therefore leaks it.
Additionally, ifmsh->csa_role and ifmsh->chsw_ttl have their state leak
in this case, so things can get mixed up in addition to the memory
leak.
Refactor the reset and call it in ieee80211_stop_mesh() to fix it all.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/860134b3af77970e006feab7e5decb8c84771c7f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aba8dfb45864441199748c33ce3c1c8ca121c8bd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba5bf83a81e8832cb84bb3a2da67512f81f57a02 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd3b21145ae2e781daac1bbd19216a63ab4e0cbd git.kernel.org