# wifi: mac80211: don't warn when an IBSS has no channel to scan

CVE record · `CVE-2026-98425`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-98425`
- **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: `34bcf71502413f8903ade93746f2d0f04b937a78 to before bb91c15953705445778c170a2523f12351c4d928` (git)
  - affected: `34bcf71502413f8903ade93746f2d0f04b937a78 to before 5f139e17f5bdba6b68177dd8afe13fa4549dfc5f` (git)
  - affected: `34bcf71502413f8903ade93746f2d0f04b937a78 to before 23d51c0bc18f21d957756ba4650520bb3bc726b2` (git)
  - affected: `34bcf71502413f8903ade93746f2d0f04b937a78 to before a7491b7efbd9136b120a12ed72af9c12121dd134` (git)
  - affected: `5ca99e71a9a6cf33a217690f5d87bc0129d1effd` (git)
  - affected: `1cf18948040a40fa4497e40bcde2ffa8d6b1196e` (git)
  - affected: `3.4.26 to before 3.5` (semver)
  - affected: `3.7.3 to before 3.8` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `3.8`
  - unaffected: `before 3.8` (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

## 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 11th 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-2026-98425](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98425)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-98425](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98425)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb91c15953705445778c170a2523f12351c4d928>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f139e17f5bdba6b68177dd8afe13fa4549dfc5f>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23d51c0bc18f21d957756ba4650520bb3bc726b2>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7491b7efbd9136b120a12ed72af9c12121dd134>

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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