CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98331
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: unlist vifs when their netdev is unregistered
mac80211 only removes vifs from the local->interfaces list when
an interface is removed via ieee80211_if_remove(), before it
unregisters the netdev. However, it's possible for a netdev to
be unregistered without going through that: When the netns that
holds the wiphy is destroyed, the wiphy is supposed to move to
the init_ns, but that can run into allocation failures.
Then, mac80211 has an interface listed that doesn't exist, and
will eventually hit
BUG: failure at net/wireless/core.h:141/wiphy_to_rdev()!
...
_cfg80211_unregister_wdev+0x24/0x36a [cfg80211]
cfg80211_unregister_wdev+0x15/0x1d [cfg80211]
ieee80211_remove_interfaces+0x1ff/0x257 [mac80211]
ieee80211_unregister_hw+0x73/0x1d1 [mac80211]
mac80211_hwsim_del_radio+0x114/0x166 [mac80211_hwsim]
Remove the interface from the list in ->ndo_uninit if it's still
around to avoid this.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20a56e96a6f7b4dfbd13f8732fd2673409fc7ba0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/821bab0456dfca12acef6df702c8f2477d313227 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a22c02863439993095acd0c3db97fa53cd515f4f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b735ad1a9aca6080192c1316cf2706e5e1318762 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d45bf731ec7085d2cc2c5d179d3b3b6c743d4fb1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eee2efd82867b623982ac51925b5a1812a74c50d git.kernel.org