Riskcovery

CVE-2026-98328

wifi: mac80211: add HE 6 GHz capability in the scan elems len

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 6, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 25, 2026

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Description

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

wifi: mac80211: add HE 6 GHz capability in the scan elems len

The HE 6 GHz Band Capability element is in the probe request for every band if 6 GHz is supported, so add the size to scan_ies_len.

Otherwise, building probe request elements can fail, triggering the WARN_ON in __ieee80211_start_scan().

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 2ad2274c58ee2dcaf9ccde5c63ff30f59b138f77 to before db19d5414227d86cee77a000607a6710d7f36853Affected
  • 2ad2274c58ee2dcaf9ccde5c63ff30f59b138f77 to before be7bfdea1ec9b672a80c736bd6ed932e1adebef8Affected
  • 2ad2274c58ee2dcaf9ccde5c63ff30f59b138f77 to before 8659bd6c4c852096b6621086d1ea38eed84b454aAffected
  • 2ad2274c58ee2dcaf9ccde5c63ff30f59b138f77 to before ad5bd0f6a0c337a80c141ea8e6c7a1d9c145be79Affected
  • 2ad2274c58ee2dcaf9ccde5c63ff30f59b138f77 to before 9d83c08dcce808c732988a5291e3ef4f59d09edbAffected
  • 2ad2274c58ee2dcaf9ccde5c63ff30f59b138f77 to before cd54bf333f5631d3630bab0a832e9ae648f73515Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.8Affected
  • before 5.8Not affected
  • 6.1.189 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.158 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.112 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.54 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.8 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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