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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98406" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-14T13:27:41.192Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:18:59.519Z" 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-2026-98406" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98406.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98406" title: "wifi: mac80211: avoid WARN in set_bitrate_mask when sdata not in driver" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: avoid WARN in set_bitrate_mask when sdata not in driver\n\nieee80211_set_bitrate_mask() checks if the interface is running via\nieee80211_sdata_running(), but it does not check if the interface is\nstill present in the driver.\n\nWhen sdata is running but IEEE80211_SDATA_IN_DRIVER is not set, the\ncall reaches drv_set_bitrate_mask() in driver-ops.h which hits\n\n wlan1: Failed check-sdata-in-driver check, flags: 0x0\n WARNING: net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:884 at drv_set_bitrate_mask\n\nSyzkaller triggers this via wext SIOCSIWRATE ioctl. The Call Trace shows\nwext_ioctl_dispatch() in wext-core.c dispatching the ioctl, calling\nioctl_standard_call() for SIOCSIWRATE, which calls cfg80211_wext_siwrate()\nin wext-compat.c. That builds a bitrate mask and calls\nrdev_set_bitrate_mask() which ends up in ieee80211_set_bitrate_mask() in\ncfg.c. The interface is marked running via SDATA_STATE_RUNNING but\nflags is 0, so check_sdata_in_driver() fails.\n\nWhen the interface is being torn down, or when wext ioctl is issued\nduring interface bringup before drv_add_interface() sets IN_DRIVER, the\nrunning check passes while IN_DRIVER is clear.\n\nCheck IEEE80211_SDATA_IN_DRIVER in ieee80211_set_bitrate_mask() before\ncalling the driver, returning -ENETDOWN. This avoids the WARN_ONCE in\ndriver-ops.h and matches other cfg.c operations that bail early when not\nin driver.\n\nThis change should be safe because wiphy mutex is held in\ncfg80211_wext_siwrate() via guard(wiphy), and IN_DRIVER is set/cleared\nunder RTNL and wiphy paths in drv_add_interface() and\ndrv_remove_interface() in driver-ops.c, so the check is race-free\nagainst driver add/remove. Returning -ENETDOWN is the same error other\nnot-running paths use and does not introduce new locking.\n\n[also add second syzbot report]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"554a43d5e77e8256aa9685ffd19ad555e6f77979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4ba86c44b2fcb1c3175caa2456b6d58f483446ab"},{"version":"554a43d5e77e8256aa9685ffd19ad555e6f77979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4095b66acae9893dd13deb39a4331651cb2f822b"},{"version":"554a43d5e77e8256aa9685ffd19ad555e6f77979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c2cd9c44777cf97be3e35c10b7c2d8f59ebb9306"},{"version":"554a43d5e77e8256aa9685ffd19ad555e6f77979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d1700394e9f5d0bd9bebad8d5a50edf983f52fd"},{"version":"554a43d5e77e8256aa9685ffd19ad555e6f77979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7978dda63d2b109ea9c3f7a096cd1aac6542cd54"},{"version":"554a43d5e77e8256aa9685ffd19ad555e6f77979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"432c8532d5ccc2af77da43ed6ef1c80495a4efe8"},{"version":"554a43d5e77e8256aa9685ffd19ad555e6f77979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c4ee5685af444024e6222ce29f6ed36adc44ffc3"},{"version":"554a43d5e77e8256aa9685ffd19ad555e6f77979","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da2ca406f45a6e21760243152ed8d2e8e72915c2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.5"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"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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