CVE record · CVE-2026-98829

wifi: mac80211: drop oversized fragments to avoid extra_len overflow

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:49 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 69f132236827ce7d4531846cc2b9447dd5620aff to before 9338b2dea74cb0fc80a4c958b68e687610ba2261 git affected 69f132236827ce7d4531846cc2b9447dd5620aff to before 870b8cb9baa9bd859deceb33ae158011e6ba2360 git affected 69f132236827ce7d4531846cc2b9447dd5620aff to before 5e4f3509793b4db2c0835340224743db680e861f git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 4.3 unaffected before 4.3 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-2026-98829
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 18 Oct 2026
Updated: 19 Oct 2026

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Severity and exploitation

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CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0017, the 5th percentile, on 7 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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