CVE-2026-98425 (GCVE-0-2026-98425)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-14 13:27
Modified
2026-10-19 09:19
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: don't warn when an IBSS has no channel to scan ieee80211_request_ibss_scan() warns when regulatory leaves no allowed channel, but that can happen as the regdomain can change while IBSS is operating, and it can continue to operate briefly during the 60s grace period until it's shut down. Just remove the warning in this case.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 34bcf71502413f8903ade93746f2d0f04b937a78
Version: 34bcf71502413f8903ade93746f2d0f04b937a78
Version: 34bcf71502413f8903ade93746f2d0f04b937a78
Version: 34bcf71502413f8903ade93746f2d0f04b937a78
Version: 5ca99e71a9a6cf33a217690f5d87bc0129d1effd
Version: 1cf18948040a40fa4497e40bcde2ffa8d6b1196e
Version: 3.4.26   ≤
Version: 3.7.3   ≤
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