# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31394"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-03T15:15:58.806Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:07:51.015Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31394"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31394.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31394"
title: "mac80211: fix crash in ieee80211_chan_bw_change for AP_VLAN stations"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmac80211: fix crash in ieee80211_chan_bw_change for AP_VLAN stations\n\nieee80211_chan_bw_change() iterates all stations and accesses\nlink-\u003ereserved.oper via sta-\u003esdata-\u003elink[link_id]. For stations on\nAP_VLAN interfaces (e.g. 4addr WDS clients), sta-\u003esdata points to\nthe VLAN sdata, whose link never participates in chanctx reservations.\nThis leaves link-\u003ereserved.oper zero-initialized with chan == NULL,\ncausing a NULL pointer dereference in __ieee80211_sta_cap_rx_bw()\nwhen accessing chandef-\u003echan-\u003eband during CSA.\n\nResolve the VLAN sdata to its parent AP sdata using get_bss_sdata()\nbefore accessing link data.\n\n[also change sta-\u003esdata in ARRAY_SIZE even if it doesn't matter]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b27512368591fc959768df1f7dacf2a96b1bd036","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"65c25b588994dd422fea73fa322de56e1ae4a33b"},{"version":"b27512368591fc959768df1f7dacf2a96b1bd036","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5a86d4e920d9783a198e39cf53f0e410fba5fbd6"},{"version":"b27512368591fc959768df1f7dacf2a96b1bd036","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c6629e859a2211a1fbb4868f915413f80001ca5"},{"version":"b27512368591fc959768df1f7dacf2a96b1bd036","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"672e5229e1ecfc2a3509b53adcb914d8b024a853"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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