CVE-2026-90346 json
wifi: nl80211: clean up color-change beacon data on errors
published 2026-09-17 52 d ago modified 2026-10-30 10 d ago also EUVD-2026-82007
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: nl80211: clean up color-change beacon data on errors
nl80211_color_change() calls nl80211_parse_beacon() for the beacon_next template, which can allocate params.beacon_next.mbssid_ies and .rnr_ies. A parsing failure returned directly instead of using the out: cleanup, leaking any allocations completed before the error.
Allocate the nested attribute table before parsing beacon_next. Its allocation failure can then return before beacon data exists, while a later parsing failure uses out: to release the parsed data.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.57, 7.2.6, 7.3
- linux Debian 13 6.12.115-2
- linux Debian 14 7.2.6-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-90346
- linux Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42
- linux-aws Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1016.17
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1016.18
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1017.17
- linux-riscv Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42.1
- linux-oracle Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1015.16
- linux-hwe-7.0 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 7.0.0-42.42~24.04.1
- linux-oem-7.0 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1017.17
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90346
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- kernel-source openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.2.7-1.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11880-1
- kernel Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.161.1-1
azure linux advisories AZL-102671
Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f8c28a0fb08611e1278ab2af964550e22aac3c commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f47c9bc4a62e61f932a83680a796bc09ae48dd3 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbe3a69a7b64398dddd1c989e9a40eaa57616b33 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ec1d14cf302ae7c23ec218527b2849a1fced3f4 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e0a67fbe3d9e2e1d6f81dfc607184c6b0abd3dd commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/927ee844c47ac2aef22c8f7a35f098ff576b398b commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2026-90346 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: wifi: nl80211: clean up color-change beacon data on errors
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 moreaffected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 morenot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/62f8c28a0fb08611e1278ab2af964550e22aac3c
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/5f47c9bc4a62e61f932a83680a796bc09ae48dd3
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/bbe3a69a7b64398dddd1c989e9a40eaa57616b33
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/0ec1d14cf302ae7c23ec218527b2849a1fced3f4
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/4e0a67fbe3d9e2e1d6f81dfc607184c6b0abd3dd
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/927ee844c47ac2aef22c8f7a35f098ff576b398b
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-90346
- NVD CVE-2026-90346
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