CVE-2026-98916

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: nl80211: check link is beaconing for color change When trying to do a color change, validate that the link is beaconing first, to avoid calling the driver with an invalid link.

Affected packages

This record carries no package version data, so it cannot be matched against a dependency list automatically. Read the advisory and compare your version by hand.

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51423d370739aa3f701fdfbfcc52ecf321dfd71a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55308cee9c2196f39cd1ce8ee6c1fed9e12a00d4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc4713539da73d2d2c03d064b22b0e6ab38bd361
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e50965c702cfd41eb83464565f6272d4d4bfc00c