Bug 2546390 (CVE-2026-98335)

Summary: CVE-2026-98335 kernel: wifi: mac80211: abort chanswitch when leaving a mesh
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's mac80211 wireless networking subsystem. When a wireless interface disconnects from a mesh network while a channel switch announcement is in progress, the system releases the channel context without properly canceling the ongoing switch operation. A local user managing network configurations can trigger this flaw to cause a kernel crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:12:15 UTC
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:

  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

Abort the channel switch properly.