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    "id": "CVE-2026-98326",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98326",
    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-06T08:46:19.534Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T09:17:36.726Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z",
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      "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"
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      "title": "wifi: mac80211: mesh: release the channel if start fails",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: mesh: release the channel if start fails\n\nieee80211_join_mesh() acquires a channel context and then calls\nieee80211_start_mesh(), which can fail. In that case, the chanctx\nisn't released then interface removal will attempt to unassign it\nafter it's removed from the driver, hitting:\n\n  wlan0: Failed check-sdata-in-driver check, flags: 0x0\n  WARNING: net/mac80211/driver-ops.c:366 at drv_unassign_vif_chanctx\n   ieee80211_assign_link_chanctx\n   __ieee80211_link_release_channel\n   ieee80211_link_release_channel\n   ieee80211_teardown_sdata\n   unregister_netdevice_many_notify\n   _cfg80211_unregister_wdev\n   ieee80211_remove_interfaces\n   ieee80211_unregister_hw\n   mac80211_hwsim_del_radio\n   hwsim_exit_net\n\nCorrectly release the channel on start failures.",
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