CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-98330

HighCVSS 7.0
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's cfg80211 subsystem, when a network namespace is destroyed, moving the wiphy to the initial namespace can fail, leaving a garbage netns pointer. This leads to a kernel fault when notifying about the wiphy.

Risk Assessment

This could lead to system crashes (kernel fault) during namespace removal, which could be exploited for DoS attacks.

Recommendation

Install a kernel patch that removes interfaces that cannot be moved instead of failing the switch, so that the wiphy always ends up in the initial namespace.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: get the wiphy out of a dying network namespace When a network namespace is destroyed, cfg80211_pernet_exit() moves any wiphy back to the initial namespace, and just warns if that fails. But moving an interface can fail (due to allocation failures), and then the wiphy is left behind with a garbage netns pointer: Kernel mode fault at addr 0x30 genlmsg_multicast_netns.constprop.0+0x46/0xcf [cfg80211] nl80211_notify_wiphy+0xcd/0xe8 [cfg80211] wiphy_unregister+0x169/0x3fc [cfg80211] Note that commit debac3a20dec ("net: Remove conflicting altnames for dying netns in __dev_change_net_namespace().") fixed another path that could reach it without allocation failures. Remove interfaces that cannot be moved instead of failing the switch, so that the wiphy always ends up in the initial namespace. In this case the netdev core will unregister the interfaces anyway.

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