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CVE-2026-98707

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Oct 18, 2026Sources checked Oct 21, 2026
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CVE-2026-98707. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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Vendor revision: Oct 20, 2026

Release Notes

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview

What is CVE-2026-98707?

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.

Source: NVD