CVE-2026-98707

wifi: mac80211: shut down RX BA session timer on teardown

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 18, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Sep 25, 2026

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Description

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

wifi: mac80211: shut down RX BA session timer on teardown

Tearing down an RX BA session can leave the session timer queued on a freed tid_rx. Later timer-wheel processing and the timer callback itself then run against freed memory.

An RX BAR handler can dereference tid_rx under RCU before teardown unpublishes it and stay in its read-side critical section while teardown deletes the session timer. The stale handler can then rearm the timer after timer_delete_sync() returns and before the RCU callback frees tid_rx.

Use timer_shutdown_sync() so rearm attempts become ineffective once teardown starts. Keep reorder_timer unchanged: teardown marks the session removed under reorder_lock and its release path checks that state before rearming. session_timer has no equivalent guard because ieee80211_rx_h_ctrl() rearms it before taking reorder_lock.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a87f736d942c86255e3088c606f0e3eab6bbf784 to before 225c67a0bea0bd42f568f4842e747bb7f4bafebbAffected
  • a87f736d942c86255e3088c606f0e3eab6bbf784 to before 18cf74311f3f0bc77384549d270c489f64c6510aAffected
  • a87f736d942c86255e3088c606f0e3eab6bbf784 to before d0da6ab1fc53a68025929baf0947519c6c1684dcAffected
  • a87f736d942c86255e3088c606f0e3eab6bbf784 to before 7bb2a5bd4f07192fca35644fab7d49a17bfbc861Affected
  • a87f736d942c86255e3088c606f0e3eab6bbf784 to before 481f9230284c27052b59c587069f232c5d84779eAffected
  • a87f736d942c86255e3088c606f0e3eab6bbf784 to before 09b7d5e4f88504e62ddf4ff31ebeebb3b87578baAffected
  • a87f736d942c86255e3088c606f0e3eab6bbf784 to before e588e83e5c7a0f6d7a77dbbb58927c8c8cfd598eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.36Affected
  • before 2.6.36Not affected
  • 5.15.224 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.113 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.56 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.10 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

References

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