CVE-2026-97492

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97492
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-97492.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-97492
Downstream
Published
2026-09-24T16:04:40Z
Modified
2026-10-05T02:30:38Z
Summary
wifi: mac80211: don't call ieee80211_handle_reconfig_failure when not needed
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: don't call ieee80211_handle_reconfig_failure when not needed

In case reconfiguration of NAN fails, we call ieee80211_handle_reconfig_failure, that marks all interfaces as not in the driver. Then, at the error path of the reconfig, cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces is called to destroy all the interfaces.

If we have any other interface but the NAN one, for example a BSS station, then when its state (links, stations) will be removed, we won't tell the driver about this, because we will think that the interfaces are not in the driver, and then drivers might remain with dangling pointers to objects like stations and links (at least for iwlwifi this is the case).

ieee80211_handle_reconfig_failure is meant to be called after we cleaned up the state in the driver, there is no reason to call it for NAN reconfiguration failure.

Fix the code to just warn in such a case, as we do in other error paths in reconfig where it is too complicated to rewind.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/97xxx/CVE-2026-97492.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
167e33f4f68cc8e4e3bdaf6d43641176c51f2d79
Fixed
026637b864b16dfae238e7e1accded820a3d7ae8
Fixed
6ef85dd9f8c62c9a465a32901d09475a114e67bd
Fixed
f27a5bda84ff3b0fea3de7572ff48e518e66cf5d
Fixed
60b96e44489d6775fe9cd8df619c29e0dc285c49
Fixed
6fb64029457cdcd77be546daf4c7c7cf04891857
Fixed
7a8a3ff2815501f78f494808355ddf37e08647d0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-97492.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.9.0
Fixed
5.10.271
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.222
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.189
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.12.111
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.53

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-97492.json"