CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-98338

Low risk· EPSS 5%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, when joining an IBSS only the BSSID/channel was recorded in the event and the BSS entry was looked up during processing. This was racy (e.g. a new scan with NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_FLUSH could remove it), causing a warning in __cfg80211_ibss_joined().

Risk Assessment

This can lead to kernel warnings and instability of the WiFi stack during IBSS operations.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version with the fix that performs the lookup early and keeps a reference to the BSS entry.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: ibss: ref BSS entry for joined event When the IBSS is joined, we only record the BSSID/channel in the event and look up the BSS entry when processing it. However, that's racy, e.g. a new scan with NL80211_SCAN_FLAG_FLUSH can remove it, causing a warning in the event work: !bss WARNING: net/wireless/ibss.c:37 at __cfg80211_ibss_joined+0x3d3/0x440 Workqueue: cfg80211 cfg80211_event_work cfg80211_process_wdev_events+0x39f/0x5b0 net/wireless/util.c:1144 cfg80211_process_rdev_events+0xa1/0x110 net/wireless/util.c:1179 cfg80211_event_work+0x2f/0x40 net/wireless/core.c:393 Do the lookup early (the driver is expected to only join an IBSS that has a BSS entry) and keep a reference to it.

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