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CVE record · CVE-2026-98311

wifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0014 · 2nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 6 Oct 2026, 08:46 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected c7cdba31ed8b87526db978976392802d3f93110c to before ee9ea1afd6990def51d52b3a0aecd5cfcc951da0 git
  • affected c7cdba31ed8b87526db978976392802d3f93110c to before 9ce26201f6dedf3fa02b97da8c67ee6f6c5f7225 git
  • affected c7cdba31ed8b87526db978976392802d3f93110c to before f9526054c2b2cace5916b7225603d008834ec011 git
  • affected c7cdba31ed8b87526db978976392802d3f93110c to before e8304e25c6dabb8accf38b807969438d0ce84fd7 git
  • affected c7cdba31ed8b87526db978976392802d3f93110c to before ca49763c42c1089d654bf11b037980a9ede3772c git
  • affected c7cdba31ed8b87526db978976392802d3f93110c to before 293c56a66510bb7de073a1aba388e38abddff1fb git
  • affected c7cdba31ed8b87526db978976392802d3f93110c to before b808a9af5fd21f9c68b0d024eda7535b5dce6a4e git
  • affected c7cdba31ed8b87526db978976392802d3f93110c to before e5c8d7acd31b27057ea42cd405d0b3ece097bc89 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.0
  • unaffected before 5.0 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.271 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.222 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.112 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.54 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.8 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98311
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
6 Oct 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0014, the 2nd percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 6 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.