In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: mesh: release the channel if start fails ieee80211_join_mesh() acquires a channel context and then calls ieee80211_start_mesh(), which can fail. In that case, the chanctx isn't released then interface removal will attempt to unassign it after it's removed from the driver, hitting: wlan0: Failed check-sdata-in-driver check, flags: 0x0 WARNING: net/mac80211/driver-ops.c:366 at drv_unassign_vif_chanctx ieee80211_assign_link_chanctx __ieee80211_link_release_channel ieee80211_link_release_channel ieee80211_teardown_sdata unregister_netdevice_many_notify _cfg80211_unregister_wdev ieee80211_remove_interfaces ieee80211_unregister_hw mac80211_hwsim_del_radio hwsim_exit_net Correctly release the channel on start failures.
Fix
Microsoft's update · Critical
- Release Notes — azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0 · build 6.6.158.1-1
From the 2026-Oct release note of Microsoft's Security Update Guide, revised 2026-10-29.
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 2
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-19 09:17
- First seenunscoredNVD modified 2026-10-19 10:18
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41bee71112db53651ba9a9030de1b843255a4a7f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a4e3fa77ea36d3419d806fb5883ef425a605a5d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/632f7acfe6dac1278a9314eaaab14fada400ddaf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae97fff6495a8764bc0ef281cfe5444f701e527f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b51f5a310bd6888b90bb9546a8081215dcfe6fbe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0afcec2129c166e61821d6ae097061155f01b12