CVE-2026-98325
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: set up the TX info early to fix failure paths The previous commit 2c51457d930f ("wifi: mac80211: free ack status frame on TX header build failure") cleaned up the leak, but still left the code a bit messy and the failed SKB didn't get reported to userspace. Fix this up by initialising skb->cb[] earlier, which allows using ieee80211_free_txskb() and therefore reports it for the failure in ieee80211_build_hdr(), and unifies the ieee80211_skb_resize() failure path with it.
Severity
Not scored
CVSS score
Not available
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Published
2026-10-06 09:18:24.693000
Last modified
2026-10-19 10:18:34.697000
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"published": "2026-10-06T09:18:24.693",
"lastModified": "2026-10-19T10:18:34.697",
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: set up the TX info early to fix failure paths\n\nThe previous commit 2c51457d930f (\"wifi: mac80211: free ack status\nframe on TX header build failure\") cleaned up the leak, but still\nleft the code a bit messy and the failed SKB didn't get reported\nto userspace.\n\nFix this up by initialising skb->cb[] earlier, which allows using\nieee80211_free_txskb() and therefore reports it for the failure\nin ieee80211_build_hdr(), and unifies the ieee80211_skb_resize()\nfailure path with it."
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