CVE-2026-97511

wifi: mac80211: avoid out-of-bounds access in monitor

CVE-2026-97511 is fixed in linux on 1 platform by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-97511 (version 7.2.6-1), released September 24, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
4.4
Moderate
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0015
3rd percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: avoid out-of-bounds access in monitor In NAN, we don't know on what band the frame will be sent. Therefore we set info->band to NUM_NL80211_BANDS. However, this leads to out-of-bound access in ieee80211_add_tx_radiotap_header when we try to access the sbands array. Fix it by not accessing the array if the band is NUM_NL80211_BANDS. This means that we will not report rate info for legacy rate in NAN. But nobody really cares about it.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
linux · Debian 14 7.2.6-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-97511 Sep 24, 2026

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