{"cve":"CVE-2026-98325","nvd":{"published":"2026-10-06T09:18:24.693","modified":"2026-10-19T10:18:34.697","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: set up the TX info early to fix failure paths\n\nThe previous commit 2c51457d930f (\"wifi: mac80211: free ack status\nframe on TX header build failure\") cleaned up the leak, but still\nleft the code a bit messy and the failed SKB didn't get reported\nto userspace.\n\nFix this up by initialising skb->cb[] earlier, which allows using\nieee80211_free_txskb() and therefore reports it for the failure\nin ieee80211_build_hdr(), and unifies the ieee80211_skb_resize()\nfailure path with it.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03d67414bd05b86029afc14535238a9393eac1c6","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fb37d2b6cb829cebdaea80f39011469f474bdcc","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36e6f0a5e6d7238f4023e77f423c1c1414374309","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/420fcc2fdeae6ecd682d2b1605a0a54c88aed4aa","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50d3d79dc0743b616afb00d01a626c76758721f7"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:57:46.668721662+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-98325","score":0.00173,"percentile":0.06619,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}