# wifi: cfg80211: undo netns switch if renaming the wiphy fails

CVE record · `CVE-2026-98424`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-98424`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** No CVSS score
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Linux
- **Technologies:** [Linux kernel](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/linux-kernel.md)
- **Published:** 14 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 19 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 14 Oct 2026, 13:27 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: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `463d018323851a608eef52a9427b0585005c647f to before 96bef5667b0c4aecb1b850d2343f69b9d684abb9` (git)
  - affected: `463d018323851a608eef52a9427b0585005c647f to before 739b7bf3942da4cde8eedb143d01a16ed865d1d7` (git)
  - affected: `463d018323851a608eef52a9427b0585005c647f to before a41bd1938a9bfe226d444172a7e20e4bd5097960` (git)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `2.6.32`
  - unaffected: `before 2.6.32` (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

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0021, the 10th 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 14 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-98424](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98424)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-98424](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98424)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96bef5667b0c4aecb1b850d2343f69b9d684abb9>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/739b7bf3942da4cde8eedb143d01a16ed865d1d7>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a41bd1938a9bfe226d444172a7e20e4bd5097960>

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.

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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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