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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98307" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:46:04.301Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:17:17.992Z" 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-2026-98307" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98307.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98307" title: "wifi: ath11k: cleanup arsta in ath11k_mac_peer_cleanup_all()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath11k: cleanup arsta in ath11k_mac_peer_cleanup_all()\n\nWhen mac80211 removes a sta, it calls .sta_state() which in turn calls\nath11k_mac_station_remove(). In that function we clean up both peers &\narsta related resources.\n\nBut when the firmware crashes, ath11k calls ieee80211_restart_hw(), which\nassumes that all driver related resources are cleaned up beforehand. This\ncleanup is supposedly done by ath11k_mac_peer_cleanup_all() but does not\nin fact free arsta-\u003erx_stats / tx_stats.\n\nExtract the arsta cleanup from ath11k_mac_station_remove() into a\nnew ath11k_mac_station_cleanup() and call it from both there and\nath11k_mac_peer_cleanup_all().\n\nThis should handle kmemleaks reports like:\n\tunreferenced object 0xffffff801ae66400 (size 1024):\n\t comm \"hostapd\", pid 1306, jiffies 4295011565\n\t hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n\t 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n\t 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n\t backtrace (crc d61c08ec):\n\t kmemleak_alloc+0x3c/0x50\n\t __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2b0/0x3e0\n\t ath11k_mac_op_sta_state+0x1dc/0xb10\n\t drv_sta_state+0xac/0x6f8\n\t sta_info_insert_rcu+0x314/0x5e0\n\t sta_info_insert+0x14/0x38\n\t ieee80211_add_station+0x10c/0x1a0\n\t nl80211_new_station+0x3e8/0x680\n\t genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xc0/0x120\n\t genl_rcv_msg+0x1b4/0x258\n\t netlink_rcv_skb+0x4c/0x108\n\t genl_rcv+0x38/0x60\n\t netlink_unicast+0x190/0x278\n\t netlink_sendmsg+0x15c/0x370\n\t ____sys_sendmsg+0x120/0x290\n\t ___sys_sendmsg+0x70/0xa0\n\nTested-on: QCN9074 hw1.0 PCI WLAN.HK.2.9.0.1-01977-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c4108dce0838ec7d38d782f76f9c007cfe2fff45"},{"version":"d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"57bc3cd46458eafa1c38e3044a61b7399cde7642"},{"version":"d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"be1d5e95ec499ed5ee9704aa27dd1407ccf0d0ac"},{"version":"d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"820b8cff81c796ba20573e04722ab62500713f97"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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