Bug 2546412 (CVE-2026-98340) - CVE-2026-98340 kernel: wifi: cfg80211: only group hidden BSSes with beacon entries
Summary: CVE-2026-98340 kernel: wifi: cfg80211: only group hidden BSSes with beacon en...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98340
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-06 09:16 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-10 11:48 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:16:49 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: cfg80211: only group hidden BSSes with beacon entries

When a probe response for an unknown BSS comes in, __cfg80211_bss_update()
looks for an existing entry with the same BSSID and a hidden (zero-length
or NUL-filled) SSID, and if it finds one it groups them, using the beacon
IEs from the existing entry.

But that could find another entry without a beacon, if it was also from a
probe response (with SSID), so there's a group without beacon elements.

If a beacon with a hidden SSID for that BSSID arrives later,
cfg80211_combine_bsses() goes looking for the probe response entries that
belong to it - i.e. entries with the same BSSID and channel that have no
beacon IEs - and finds those two. They are already grouped with each
other, so it hits its

  WARN_ON_ONCE(bss->pub.hidden_beacon_bss)
  WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&bss->hidden_list))

which are there because an entry without beacon elements is not supposed
to be part of a group yet.

Only combine entries when a beacon was already received, ones that are
kept separate will be combined when a beacon arrives.


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