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CVE-2026-98331

7.0 high Published

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: unlist vifs when their netdev is unregistered mac80211 only removes vifs from the local->interfaces list when an interface is removed via ieee80211_if_remove(), before it unregisters the netdev. However, it's possible for a netdev to be unregistered without going through that: When the netns that holds the wiphy is destroyed, the wiphy is supposed to move to the init_ns, but that can run into allocation failures. Then, mac80211 has an interface listed that doesn't exist, and will eventually hit BUG: failure at net/wireless/core.h:141/wiphy_to_rdev()! ... _cfg80211_unregister_wdev+0x24/0x36a [cfg80211] cfg80211_unregister_wdev+0x15/0x1d [cfg80211] ieee80211_remove_interfaces+0x1ff/0x257 [mac80211] ieee80211_unregister_hw+0x73/0x1d1 [mac80211] mac80211_hwsim_del_radio+0x114/0x166 [mac80211_hwsim] Remove the interface from the list in ->ndo_uninit if it's still around to avoid this.

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 2026-10-28.

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 2

  1. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-19 09:17
  2. First seenCVSS 7.0NVD modified 2026-10-19 10:18

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 6