CVE-2026-98810: wifi: mac80211: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ieee80211_monitor_select_queue()

Published Oct 18, 2026
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Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in ieee80211monitorselectqueue()

ieee80211monitorselectqueue() validates the skb length using skb->len before dereferencing pointers into skb->data to access the 802.11 header. However, skb->len includes data in both the linear head buffer and non-linear fragments/pages. When AFPACKET sends a packet large enough to become non-linear, the 802.11 header at skb->data + lenrthdr may extend past the linear head buffer even though skb->len appears sufficient.

This leads to a slab-out-of-bounds read when accessing hdr->framecontrol, as the kernel reads beyond the allocated skb head buffer:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ieee80211monitorselectqueue+0x1ed/0x220

syzbot has hit the same issues.

Fix this by checking skbheadlen(skb) (which gives the length of the linear data region) instead of skb->len before dereferencing skb->data pointers. This ensures the required bytes are actually present in the linear portion of the skb.

Apply the same fix to ieee80211validateradiotaplen() which has the same class of bug: it uses skb->len to validate accesses to skb->data, and to the corresponding checks in ieee80211monitorstartxmit(): for drivers advertising NETIFFSG the skb is not linearized before ndostartxmit, so the 802.11 header can be read past the linear buffer there as well.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Compensating control

    In ieee80211_monitor_select_queue() and ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit(), validate the required 802.11 header bytes using skb_headlen(skb), which represents the linear head-buffer length, instead of skb->len before dereferencing pointers into skb->data.

Event History

Oct 18, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·03:48 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·03:48 PM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·04:17 PM
Description

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