Bug 2555139 (CVE-2026-98707) - CVE-2026-98707 kernel: wifi: mac80211: shut down RX BA session timer on teardown
Summary: CVE-2026-98707 kernel: wifi: mac80211: shut down RX BA session timer on teardown
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98707
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:56 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-22 10:25 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:56:38 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: shut down RX BA session timer on teardown

Tearing down an RX BA session can leave the session timer queued on a
freed tid_rx. Later timer-wheel processing and the timer callback itself
then run against freed memory.

An RX BAR handler can dereference tid_rx under RCU before teardown
unpublishes it and stay in its read-side critical section while teardown
deletes the session timer. The stale handler can then rearm the timer
after timer_delete_sync() returns and before the RCU callback frees
tid_rx.

Use timer_shutdown_sync() so rearm attempts become ineffective once
teardown starts. Keep reorder_timer unchanged: teardown marks the session
removed under reorder_lock and its release path checks that state before
rearming. session_timer has no equivalent guard because
ieee80211_rx_h_ctrl() rearms it before taking reorder_lock.


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