Bug 2546499 (CVE-2026-98325) - CVE-2026-98325 kernel: wifi: mac80211: set up the TX info early to fix failure paths
Summary: CVE-2026-98325 kernel: wifi: mac80211: set up the TX info early to fix failur...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98325
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-06 09:34 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-10 08:43 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:34:24 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: set up the TX info early to fix failure paths

The previous commit 2c51457d930f ("wifi: mac80211: free ack status
frame on TX header build failure") cleaned up the leak, but still
left the code a bit messy and the failed SKB didn't get reported
to userspace.

Fix this up by initialising skb->cb[] earlier, which allows using
ieee80211_free_txskb() and therefore reports it for the failure
in ieee80211_build_hdr(), and unifies the ieee80211_skb_resize()
failure path with it.


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