# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98195"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:44:34.915Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:15:26.463Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98195"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98195.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98195"
title: "wifi: iwlegacy: fix broadcast stations deallocation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: iwlegacy: fix broadcast stations deallocation\n\nOn the error path of __il4965_up(), il_dealloc_bcast_stations() clears\nonly IL_STA_UCODE_ACTIVE, leaving IL_STA_BCAST set. This causes the\nsame broadcast stations to be deallocated again by __il4965_down().\n\nThis can occur when RF_KILL is toggled during driver startup.\n\nTo fix clear the entire 'used' field, since we will not do any\nother operations on the station."
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