# 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-2026-98311"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:46:07.562Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:17:21.813Z"
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-2026-98311"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98311.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98311"
title: "wifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register\n\nvirt_wifi_newlink() calls netif_stacked_transfer_operstate() before\nregister_netdevice(). If the lower device is dormant, that queues the\nnew netdev on lweventlist while it is still uninitialized. If\nregistration fails after that, for example because of an invalid name\nsuch as \"bad/name\", free_netdev() immediately frees the object. A\nlater linkwatch_fire_event() then use-after-frees the list entry.\n\nMove the transfer to after netdev_upper_dev_link(), as macvlan and\nipvlan already do."
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