CVE record · CVE-2026-98708

wifi: mac80211: keep paired old chanctx alive

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0018 · 7th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:46 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 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f to before 026ae72fa6d0f7e04951441026be473f22911b87 git
  • affected 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f to before 624bf5338d8c2f55db455ce4f2543ca4a83fab03 git
  • affected 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f to before 0fba8fbf5ab0bffc1866e5038aaab772d31d1584 git
  • affected 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f to before 47864a9092fd6f6b3f312d1e5b233ecdc68b1bd8 git
  • affected 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f to before 21a688cbeae0e682f03e91f1e7a7eedd60d9d4f2 git
  • affected 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f to before 1c82d0c5d509179ba2a4edfa096f516aebf960b0 git
  • affected 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f to before afd1cdd16a25c7185b812a612ab7d5f2cbd1e086 git
  • affected 5bcae31d9cb1ebfad3ad5a3eea04c8cdc329a04f to before 3412e9a800786d1dec4a58367db1cba275e7ef11 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 3.17
  • unaffected before 3.17 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.273 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.224 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.113 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.56 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.10 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98708
CNA
Linux
Published
18 Oct 2026
Updated
30 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

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

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 6 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 18 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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