CVE-2026-98311

Name	CVE-2026-98311
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: virt_wifi: don't transfer operstate before register virt_wifi_newlink() calls netif_stacked_transfer_operstate() before register_netdevice(). If the lower device is dormant, that queues the new netdev on lweventlist while it is still uninitialized. If registration fails after that, for example because of an invalid name such as "bad/name", free_netdev() immediately frees the object. A later linkwatch_fire_event() then use-after-frees the list entry. Move the transfer to after netdev_upper_dev_link(), as macvlan and ipvlan already do.
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-4841-1, DLA-4850-1, DSA-6568-1

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)	6.1.190-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.107-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.113-1	fixed
	forky, sid	7.2.12-1	fixed
linux-6.12 (PTS)	bookworm (security)	6.12.113-1~deb12u1	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.190-1	DLA-4841-1
linux	source	trixie	6.12.113-1	DSA-6568-1
linux	source	(unstable)	7.2.8-1
linux-6.12	source	bookworm	6.12.113-1~deb12u1	DLA-4850-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/e5c8d7acd31b27057ea42cd405d0b3ece097bc89 (7.3-rc4)