Bug 2546480 (CVE-2026-98329) - CVE-2026-98329 kernel: wifi: mac80211: don't allow injecting frames wider than the chanctx
Summary: CVE-2026-98329 kernel: wifi: mac80211: don't allow injecting frames wider tha...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98329
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-06 09:28 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-10 09:03 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:28:29 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: don't allow injecting frames wider than the chanctx

Frames injected on a monitor interface can carry a radiotap
field requesting a bandwidth, which mac80211 passes down to
the driver regardless of the the actual operational bandwidth.

If the bandwidth requested is too wide, that triggers a warning
in hwsim:

  WARN_ON(hwsim_get_chanwidth(bw) > hwsim_get_chanwidth(confbw))

Drop such frames entirely instead since they cannot be sent.


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