CVE-2026-98335

Status: ReceivedUnscored—

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: abort chanswitch when leaving a mesh

The code in ieee80211_stop_mesh() leaves CSA active, but leaving the mesh released the channel context, so the CSA finalize work crashes:

Abort the channel switch properly.

Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report

  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
        0xdffffc0000000003
  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]
  RIP: 0010:ieee80211_put_srates_elem+0x42/0x640 net/mac80211/util.c:3272
  Call Trace:
   ieee80211_mesh_build_beacon+0xa83/0x1b50 net/mac80211/mesh.c:1093
   ieee80211_mesh_rebuild_beacon+0xc7/0x170 net/mac80211/mesh.c:1147
   ieee80211_mesh_finish_csa+0x131/0x210 net/mac80211/mesh.c:1542
   ieee80211_set_after_csa_beacon net/mac80211/cfg.c:4085 [inline]
   __ieee80211_csa_finalize net/mac80211/cfg.c:4133 [inline]
   ieee80211_csa_finalize+0x633/0x1150 net/mac80211/cfg.c:4155
   cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x2ab/0x450 net/wireless/core.c:438

CVSS

NVD hasn't assigned a CVSS score to this CVE (common since the April 2026 policy change).

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.18%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 6
Score date: 10/6/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.

Linux — Linux Kernel^AI

References

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