CVE record · CVE-2026-98341

wifi: cfg80211: don't free driver-owned scan requests

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0013 · 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected 4a58e7c38443154fce1b47910e1a9184f65c5d72 to before e8c75736cfd0c6c87562cda2312e3fe5e2227955 git affected 4a58e7c38443154fce1b47910e1a9184f65c5d72 to before cf6da29d17994865f73ca70976495ea856909c63 git affected 4a58e7c38443154fce1b47910e1a9184f65c5d72 to before dab68a74e90b8e07f08ed9deaa5884857a3cfe89 git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 3.14 unaffected before 3.14 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-2026-98341
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 6 Oct 2026
Updated: 19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
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 0.0013, the 2nd percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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