CVE-2026-97511
wifi: mac80211: avoid out-of-bounds access in monitor
Published: Sep 24, 2026Updated: Sep 24, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD
Description
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.
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Linux
oss-projectaka the linux kernel
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