Bug 2540394 (CVE-2026-97511) - CVE-2026-97511 kernel: wifi: mac80211: avoid out-of-bounds access in monitor
Summary: CVE-2026-97511 kernel: wifi: mac80211: avoid out-of-bounds access in monitor
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-97511
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-09-24 16:39 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-28 16:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-24 16:39:45 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: avoid out-of-bounds access in monitor

In NAN, we don't know on what band the frame will be sent. Therefore we
set info->band to NUM_NL80211_BANDS. However, this leads to out-of-bound
access in ieee80211_add_tx_radiotap_header when we try to access the
sbands array.

Fix it by not accessing the array if the band is NUM_NL80211_BANDS.
This means that we will not report rate info for legacy rate in NAN.
But nobody really cares about it.


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