Bug 2536729 (CVE-2026-90344) - CVE-2026-90344 kernel: wifi: mac80211: disconnect on CSA to channel 0
Summary: CVE-2026-90344 kernel: wifi: mac80211: disconnect on CSA to channel 0
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90344
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-09-17 19:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-13 14:31 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 19:22:38 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: disconnect on CSA to channel 0

The refactor for the CSA parsing erroneously equates channel
zero and no information present, leading it to ignore a CSA
on an AP that advertises a switch to that (invalid) channel.
This leads to not disconnecting, which we should. For Intel
devices, this can lead to a firmware crash.

Fix this by using an int type for the channel number as well
as the opclass, and using a (negative) value that cannot be
encoded in the element to indicate it's not present.


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