{"id":"CVE-2026-97511","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: avoid out-of-bounds access in monitor\n\nIn NAN, we don't know on what band the frame will be sent","summary":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: avoid out-of-bounds access in monitor\n\nIn NAN, we don't know on what band the frame will be sent. Therefore we\nset info->band to NUM_NL80211_BANDS. Howe…","severity":"none","vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","affected":["Linux >= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 7f087f70e020b16a5b967332ee6e937817eaa173","Linux >= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 03c41203ee5a833a9d7a7630be190830cede29d8","Linux < 6.18.53","Linux (all versions)"],"published":"2026-09-24","updated":"2026-09-24","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-24T17:17:28.993","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97511","references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03c41203ee5a833a9d7a7630be190830cede29d8","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f087f70e020b16a5b967332ee6e937817eaa173","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"ingestedAt":"2026-09-24T16:47:15.861Z","slug":"CVE-2026-97511","body":"## Overview\n\nIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: avoid out-of-bounds access in monitor\n\nIn NAN, we don't know on what band the frame will be sent. Therefore we\nset info->band to NUM_NL80211_BANDS. However, this leads to out-of-bound\naccess in ieee80211_add_tx_radiotap_header when we try to access the\nsbands array.\n\nFix it by not accessing the array if the band is NUM_NL80211_BANDS.\nThis means that we will not report rate info for legacy rate in NAN.\nBut nobody really cares about it.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":3,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":2.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}