CVE-2026-98707

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: shut down RX BA session timer on teardown Tearing down an RX BA session can leave the session timer queued on a freed tid_rx. Later timer-wheel processing and the timer callback itself then run against freed memory. An RX BAR handler can dereference tid_rx under RCU before teardown unpublishes it and stay in its read-side critical section while teardown deletes the session timer. The stale handler can then rearm the timer after timer_delete_sync() returns and before the RCU callback frees tid_rx. Use timer_shutdown_sync() so rearm attempts become ineffective once teardown starts. Keep reorder_timer unchanged: teardown marks the session removed under reorder_lock and its release path checks that state before rearming. session_timer has no equivalent guard because ieee80211_rx_h_ctrl() rearms it before taking reorder_lock.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e588e83e5c7a0f6d7a77dbbb58927c8c8cfd598e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bb2a5bd4f07192fca35644fab7d49a17bfbc861

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/481f9230284c27052b59c587069f232c5d84779e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09b7d5e4f88504e62ddf4ff31ebeebb3b87578ba

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-103961

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-18

Updated: 2026-10-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00168