Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 18, 2026· Updated Feb 20, 2026
wifi: mac80211: don't WARN for connections on invalid channels
CVE-2025-71227
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: don't WARN for connections on invalid channels
It's not clear (to me) how exactly syzbot managed to hit this, but it seems conceivable that e.g. regulatory changed and has disabled a channel between scanning (channel is checked to be usable by cfg80211_get_ies_channel_number) and connecting on the channel later.
With one scenario that isn't covered elsewhere described above, the warning isn't good, replace it with a (more informative) error message.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 3.8
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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