Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-98331

Linux Linux

wifi: mac80211: unlist vifs when their netdev is unregistered

CVSS 3.1
7.0High

Official 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.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.0High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 2.6.32 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 463d018323851a608eef52a9427b0585005c647f ≤ v < 20a56e96a6f7b4dfbd13f8732fd2673409fc7ba0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 463d018323851a608eef52a9427b0585005c647f ≤ v < b735ad1a9aca6080192c1316cf2706e5e1318762 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 463d018323851a608eef52a9427b0585005c647f ≤ v < a22c02863439993095acd0c3db97fa53cd515f4f CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 463d018323851a608eef52a9427b0585005c647f ≤ v < 821bab0456dfca12acef6df702c8f2477d313227 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 463d018323851a608eef52a9427b0585005c647f ≤ v < eee2efd82867b623982ac51925b5a1812a74c50d CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 463d018323851a608eef52a9427b0585005c647f ≤ v < d45bf731ec7085d2cc2c5d179d3b3b6c743d4fb1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-10-06
Last updated
2026-10-19
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.13%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
2.7%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

Weaknesses (CWE)

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