CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98702
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: reject invalid 320 MHz CSA bandwidth
The HT/VHT channel definition validator can receive a 320 MHz
bandwidth indication from a received CSA frame on a non-6 GHz link.
It warns for this unsupported width but continues with an uninitialized
vht_operation.chan_width, which is then read by
ieee80211_chandef_vht_oper(). With panic_on_warn enabled, this lets a
received frame panic the kernel.
Reject the channel definition before entering the VHT operation
conversion. This preserves the existing CSA fallback while avoiding
both the warning and the uninitialized read.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1892e71aa2e5ee667d87c6e49e3661f5e290303b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56e236759f0a8dc910c2ae7cd3c161f298ee5794 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79b3ce0d881cd6e5d4d3496b19f5cc5e7089a56c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf0ddacce173890407ed3fa50c8ea9b3c0cc0e16 git.kernel.org