wifi: mac80211: ibss: wait for in-flight TX on disconnect
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 7 without a fix
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: ibss: wait for in-flight TX on disconnect While leaving an IBSS in ieee80211_ibss_disconnect() mac80211 flushes stations, turns the carrier off and immediately tells the driver to leave as well. While there may be synchronize_net() in station flush and in this code later, packets can still be transmitted due to cross-CPU race conditions after carrier off is set. Therefore, it's possible for a race to happen where a TX to the driver occurs while or after telling it to leave the IBSS. This can be confusing to drivers, and in the case of iwlwifi leads to an attempt to use invalid queues. Move netif_carrier_off() to occur before sta_info_flush() during IBSS disconnect, and add synchronize_net() if flushing didn't, so that the synchronize_net() always happens between turning the carrier off and telling the driver, avoiding this race.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.111, 6.18.53, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-93804
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f3pr-77p4-f6r5
- 2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@8e4a07ed82bae5d13525770880dc6dfd27f9bccd · CNA
- 2026-10-21 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/Linux@47185b5dbac264e7eb48c6d44368be6bfec17085, Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-30 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47185b5dbac264e7eb48c6d44368be6bfec17085
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e4a07ed82bae5d13525770880dc6dfd27f9bccd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20a3fb5e1a95caa34896853ca17a50d21c754969
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3451e6971248250312ad32dd7f63cc9f0a925f5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0e69d9afa59b93c30294eba89b1f15f69e91105
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Sources
- CVE-2026-93804 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-93804 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-f3pr-77p4-f6r5 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-93804 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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