CVE record · CVE-2026-98349

wifi: libipw: reject too-short beacon and probe responses

CVSS 7.1 HighEPSS 0.0025 · 16th 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 b453872c35cfcbdbf5a794737817f7d4e7b1b579 to before cee6f141b3bebe62eb0363fd147acb52023935f0 git
  • affected b453872c35cfcbdbf5a794737817f7d4e7b1b579 to before 23afeb5d2bdfd34c8a0a661876291a4fa9978293 git
  • affected b453872c35cfcbdbf5a794737817f7d4e7b1b579 to before 89959ff00a978f3172726d3d5f861ee6f1aae26d git
  • affected b453872c35cfcbdbf5a794737817f7d4e7b1b579 to before 14ae269c1306053ddf1ccf37c4bd66e085a652d1 git
  • affected b453872c35cfcbdbf5a794737817f7d4e7b1b579 to before ff756e6647722b7d225d882f7bdb186d8eee318e git
  • affected b453872c35cfcbdbf5a794737817f7d4e7b1b579 to before 2c87bbc00dc93149d1dc4f803ad92d92e4ef3758 git
  • affected b453872c35cfcbdbf5a794737817f7d4e7b1b579 to before 19959fb60228f6dccc40d55507f8b1a751c2dc89 git
  • affected b453872c35cfcbdbf5a794737817f7d4e7b1b579 to before 5ce5721e8cbe3e80db8f43851cc2a2a92485ef4b git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.14
  • unaffected before 2.6.14 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-2026-98349
CNA
Linux
Published
6 Oct 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.1 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0025, the 16th 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

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