{"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":"medium","vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","affected":["Linux >= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 7f087f70e020b16a5b967332ee6e937817eaa173","Linux >= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 03c41203ee5a833a9d7a7630be190830cede29d8","Linux < 6.18.53","Linux (all versions)"],"published":"2026-09-24","updated":"2026-09-28","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-28T06:16:37.117","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"},{"url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-97511.json"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-97511"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2540394"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97511"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97511"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-97511.mbox"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org","csaf","vex","red-hat"],"epss":0.00145,"epssPercentile":0.03725,"ingestedAt":"2026-09-24T16:47:15.861Z","cvss":5.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cvssSource":"vendor","cwe":["CWE-125"],"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.\n\n## Vendor advisories\n\n- **Red Hat VEX** · Moderate · affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 · no fix planned: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 · updated 2026-10-17 · [vex](https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-97511.json)","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":30,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":30.3,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[{"seq":212577,"id":"CVE-2026-97511","ts":1790668214447,"field":"cvss","old":null,"new":"5.5"},{"seq":212576,"id":"CVE-2026-97511","ts":1790668214447,"field":"severity","old":"none","new":"medium"}]}