CVE-2026-97517

Name	CVE-2026-97517
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: nl80211: reject beacons with bad HE operation The HE operation element not only needs to be longer than the fixed part, but also have an appropriate size for the variable part inside of it. Check this.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-4817-1, DSA-6528-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bookworm	6.1.176-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.187-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.12.107-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.111-1	fixed
	forky	7.2.9-1	fixed
	sid	7.2.10-1	fixed
linux-6.12 (PTS)	bookworm (security)	6.12.111-1~deb12u1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	trixie	6.12.111-1	DSA-6528-1
linux	source	(unstable)	7.2.6-1
linux-6.12	source	bookworm	6.12.111-1~deb12u1	DLA-4817-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/8b9a100e1a76c52988b31099b349fd95a58c8768 (7.2-rc1)