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CVE-2026-53257

wifi: cfg80211: enforce HE/EHT cap/oper consistency PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: enforce HE/EHT cap/oper consistency Xiang Mei reports that mac80211 could crash if eht_cap is set but eht_oper isn't. Rather than fixing that for the individual user(s), enforce that both HE/EHT have consistent elements.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 22c64f37e1d4e757b0073a72f1439c2c3509c5cb before afe815a67ec8f2fd03c261fb64f5cde7eb05c17a; affected 22c64f37e1d4e757b0073a72f1439c2c3509c5cb before 0f5e9ddd7e8e7758771a63cdd498a2007dc8da7a; affected 22c64f37e1d4e757b0073a72f1439c2c3509c5cb before cb9959ab5f99611d27a06586add84811fe8102dc
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.16; unaffected 0 before 6.16; unaffected 6.18.57 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.0.13 through 7.0.*; unaffected 7.1 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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