Riskcovery

CVE-2026-53257

wifi: cfg80211: enforce HE/EHT cap/oper consistency

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Jun 9, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: cfg80211: enforce HE/EHT cap/oper consistency

Xiang Mei reports that mac80211 could crash if eht_cap is set but eht_oper isn't. Rather than fixing that for the individual user(s), enforce that both HE/EHT have consistent elements.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 22c64f37e1d4e757b0073a72f1439c2c3509c5cb to before afe815a67ec8f2fd03c261fb64f5cde7eb05c17aAffected
  • 22c64f37e1d4e757b0073a72f1439c2c3509c5cb to before 0f5e9ddd7e8e7758771a63cdd498a2007dc8da7aAffected
  • 22c64f37e1d4e757b0073a72f1439c2c3509c5cb to before cb9959ab5f99611d27a06586add84811fe8102dcAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.16Affected
  • before 6.16Not affected
  • 6.18.57 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.13 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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