# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98709"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:46:39.290Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:55:58.274Z"
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-2026-98709"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98709.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98709"
title: "wifi: mac80211: count only matching reservations in reserved switch"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: count only matching reservations in reserved switch\n\nieee80211_vif_use_reserved_switch() validates a replacement by counting\nassigned links on ctx-\u003ereplace_ctx and treating reservations too\nbroadly. A link can still be assigned to the old channel context while\nholding a reservation that belongs to a different replacement\noperation.\n\nThat can make the current replacement appear complete too early. If\nanother link finalizes first, the function can free the\nWILL_BE_REPLACED chanctx while the unmatched link and driver still use\nit, leading to a use-after-free in later beacon generation.\n\nRequire an in-place reservation to point at the current replacement\ncontext, and require the reserved and assigned contexts to be the\nmatching replacement pair, before counting or moving the link."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4ae6ed5b6074df5f3da05fd74c40bb24c5c9b41d"},{"version":"5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d31f655e44631891788ca67018ec5e1ed1c7de86"},{"version":"5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03525b632908b049f4d04cc8a71cdff2329589cf"},{"version":"5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5cc54a000960bc88f8c58940164dca0e601ab39c"},{"version":"5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"437f3727b4fd715266c296435c116288f82666fd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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