CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98709
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: count only matching reservations in reserved switch
ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_switch() validates a replacement by counting
assigned links on ctx->replace_ctx and treating reservations too
broadly. A link can still be assigned to the old channel context while
holding a reservation that belongs to a different replacement
operation.
That can make the current replacement appear complete too early. If
another link finalizes first, the function can free the
WILL_BE_REPLACED chanctx while the unmatched link and driver still use
it, leading to a use-after-free in later beacon generation.
Require an in-place reservation to point at the current replacement
context, and require the reserved and assigned contexts to be the
matching replacement pair, before counting or moving the link.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03525b632908b049f4d04cc8a71cdff2329589cf git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/437f3727b4fd715266c296435c116288f82666fd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ae6ed5b6074df5f3da05fd74c40bb24c5c9b41d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cc54a000960bc88f8c58940164dca0e601ab39c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d31f655e44631891788ca67018ec5e1ed1c7de86 git.kernel.org