Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 24, 2026· Updated Sep 28, 2026
CVE-2026-97511
CVE-2026-97511
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: avoid out-of-bounds access in monitor
In NAN, we don't know on what band the frame will be sent. Therefore we set info->band to NUM_NL80211_BANDS. However, this leads to out-of-bound access in ieee80211_add_tx_radiotap_header when we try to access the sbands array.
Fix it by not accessing the array if the band is NUM_NL80211_BANDS. This means that we will not report rate info for legacy rate in NAN. But nobody really cares about it.
Affected products
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Vulnerability mechanics
References
2News mentions
1- Linux Kernel: 25 Vulnerabilities Patched Across Multiple Subsystems on Sep 24, 2026Vypr Intelligence · Sep 24, 2026