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CVE-2026-98425

wifi: mac80211: don't warn when an IBSS has no channel to scan

N/A
Published: October 14, 2026 at 01:27 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 10:18 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: don't warn when an IBSS has no channel to scan ieee80211_request_ibss_scan() warns when regulatory leaves no allowed channel, but that can happen as the regdomain can change while IBSS is operating, and it can continue to operate briefly during the 60s grace period until it's shut down. Just remove the warning in this case.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Linux Kernel· Linux
90%
1cf18948040a40fa4497e40bcde2ffa8d6b1196e3.4.263.7.33.834bcf71502413f8903ade93746f2d0f04b937a785ca99e71a9a6cf33a217690f5d87bc0129d1effd
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.112 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.54 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (4)

Source: cverecord
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb91c15953705445778c170a2523f12351c4d928
Source: cverecord
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f139e17f5bdba6b68177dd8afe13fa4549dfc5f
Source: cverecord
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23d51c0bc18f21d957756ba4650520bb3bc726b2
Source: cverecord
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7491b7efbd9136b120a12ed72af9c12121dd134

Quick Info

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