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CVE-2026-98340

wifi: cfg80211: only group hidden BSSes with beacon entries

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: only group hidden BSSes with beacon entries When a probe response for an unknown BSS comes in, __cfg80211_bss_update() looks for an existing entry with the same BSSID and a hidden (zero-length or NUL-filled) SSID, and if it finds one it groups them, using the beacon IEs from the existing entry. But that could find another entry without a beacon, if it was also from a probe response (with SSID), so there's a group without beacon elements. If a beacon with a hidden SSID for that BSSID arrives later, cfg80211_combine_bsses() goes looking for the probe response entries that belong to it - i.e. entries with the same BSSID and channel that have no beacon IEs - and finds those two. They are already grouped with each other, so it hits its WARN_ON_ONCE(bss->pub.hidden_beacon_bss) WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&bss->hidden_list)) which are there because an entry without beacon elements is not supposed to be part of a group yet. Only combine entries when a beacon was already received, ones that are kept separate will be combined when a beacon arrives.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc to < 4cd6a518ce7527284bbc9baab5fa2453a7d477c2affected
  • 4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc to < 74ed0d992f392c75e1969415527e06df3f7a4034affected
  • 4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc to < 3658093df69849daf4f813a8f087f358e13be203affected
  • 4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc to < 73365b81630b57e1a1f9d50dc87281797855c2acaffected
  • 4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc to < 7405dd19bda4537a2843637d8d7bed1efd4776cfaffected
  • 4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc to < 86235be788094131912e9bd8412b358d91d99f49affected
  • 4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc to < 332ea1502c46f53375cb109fa82bfaff818f3a41affected
  • 4593c4cbe1c96b3995727dc42f6aa103f4ff5afc to < 068843ed0902c552a13860c5ec6b2ca65b57a065affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 3.9affected
  • 0 to < 3.9unaffected
  • 5.10.271 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.222 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.189 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.158 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.112 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.54 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.2.8 to ≤ 7.2.*unaffected
  • 7.3 to ≤ *unaffected

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