UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-98341
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: don't free driver-owned scan requests When an interface goes down while a
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: cfg80211: don't free driver-owned scan requests
When an interface goes down while a scan is running, cfg80211 completes
the scan towards userspace and frees the scan request. However, the
driver can be convinced that it owns the request, since the cancellation
is (intended to be) asynchronous.
The WARN_ON() in the netdev notifier was meant to catch this, but it's
not actually avoidable, so it triggers and we get a UAF in scan_done().
There doesn't seem to be a great way around it, so just track that the
driver is still convinced it owns the request, and then just free it on
completion if it was already cancelled. Also remove the warnings since
they can trigger in the intended architecture.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf6da29d17994865f73ca70976495ea856909c63
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dab68a74e90b8e07f08ed9deaa5884857a3cfe89
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8c75736cfd0c6c87562cda2312e3fe5e2227955
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-10-06 via NVD.
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