CVE-2026-97511wifi: mac80211: avoid out-of-bounds access in monitor
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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.
- CVSS
- Not yet scored
- Weakness (CWE)
- Not given
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Linux
- NVD analysis
- Received
- Record last updated
- Sep 28, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name) | from fc41f4a28ac4d462487903229494eeb266f68a40 before 7f087f70e020b16a5b967332ee6e937817eaa173; from fc41f4a28ac4d462487903229494eeb266f68a40 before 03c41203ee5a833a9d7a7630be190830cede29d8 | CNA record |
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f087f70e020b16a5b967332ee6e937817eaa173
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03c41203ee5a833a9d7a7630be190830cede29d8
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