CVE-2026-97517

Summary

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

wifi: nl80211: reject beacons with bad HE operation

The HE operation element not only needs to be longer than the fixed part, but also have an appropriate size for the variable part inside of it. Check this.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux7e8d6f12bb2a729290ebb0096248ea46d2868fc6 < 6e24f72985782013bf2feb0f0712b2ac9390e909affected
LinuxLinux7e8d6f12bb2a729290ebb0096248ea46d2868fc6 < 8fe5eb7b68d76b3801409ada7365c67696e7af84affected
LinuxLinux7e8d6f12bb2a729290ebb0096248ea46d2868fc6 < 6c4bb5450b9d9111faaaba581ea45a3a79844e50affected
LinuxLinux7e8d6f12bb2a729290ebb0096248ea46d2868fc6 < 0d635f0b4a634eb599ed13a87ece0b5f129f9900affected
LinuxLinux7e8d6f12bb2a729290ebb0096248ea46d2868fc6 < 8b9a100e1a76c52988b31099b349fd95a58c8768affected
LinuxLinux5.7affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.7unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.189 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.158 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.111 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.53 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

References