{
  "cveId": "CVE-2026-98703",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-98703",
  "summary": "CVE-2026-98703 is fixed in 12 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98703, released October 19, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.",
  "title": "wifi: mac80211: minstrel_ht: validate fixed rate index",
  "description": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  wifi: mac80211: minstrel_ht: validate fixed rate index  The fixed_rate_idx debugfs file is a plain u32 attribute, so any value can be written to it.  minstrel_ht_update_stats() then copies the value into mi-\u003Emax_tp_rate[] and mi-\u003Emax_prob_rate, and minstrel_ht_set_rate() uses MI_RATE_GROUP()/MI_RATE_IDX() to index minstrel_mcs_groups[] (42 entries) and mi-\u003Egroups[].rates[] (10 entries) with it.  Writing e.g. 65535 selects group 4095 and rate index 15, far outside both arrays.  The out-of-bounds entries are dereferenced and updated as struct minstrel_rate_stats (retry counts, etc.), so the invalid index corrupts adjacent kernel memory.  With CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS the access is reported as an array-index-out-of-bounds in minstrel_ht_set_rate().  Only a valid group/rate pair, or U32_MAX to disable fixed rate processing, can be used safely, so reject any other value when the debugfs file is written.  The file is only reachable through a root-only debugfs mount, so this is not a privilege boundary.  The out-of-bounds access is still a bug that must not be reachable through a writable debugfs attribute.",
  "published": "2026-10-18T16:17:23Z",
  "severity": "Moderate",
  "cvss": 6.3,
  "epss": 0.00205,
  "epssPercentile": 0.10615,
  "priority": "Routine",
  "priorityTier": 4,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
  "vendorAdvisory": "https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-98703",
  "fixes": [
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      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "kernel-64kb",
      "release": "sles 15.7",
      "fixedVersion": "6.4.0-150700.53.90.1",
      "fix": "SUSE-SU-2026:5091-1",
      "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/suse-su-2026-5091-1",
      "released": "2026-11-07T00:43:02Z"
    },
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      "released": "2026-11-07T00:43:02Z"
    },
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      "platform": "linux",
      "product": "kernel-default",
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      "released": "2026-11-07T00:43:02Z"
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      "product": "kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_24",
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      "released": "2026-11-07T00:43:02Z"
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  "noFixYet": [],
  "dataAsOf": "2026-11-08T00:53:09Z",
  "attribution": {
    "text": "Data: Patchblox Patch Radar",
    "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/patch-radar",
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