wifi: cfg80211: ocb: don't leave if not joined

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: ocb: don't leave if not joined If there's no OCB state, don't ask the driver/mac80211 to leave, since that's just confusing. Since set/clear the chandef state, that's a simple check.

Scores

No CVSS score yet: neither the CNA, CISA nor NVD has scored this CVE. NVD status: Deferred.

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.20% · top 90% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Not scored.

Affected products

• Linux · Linux

  • affected 6e0bd6c35b021dc73a81ebd1ef79761233c48b50 – < d7b0fe3487d203c04ee1bda91a63bd4dd398c350
  • affected 6e0bd6c35b021dc73a81ebd1ef79761233c48b50 – < 94332210902967b7d63294b43428c8ed075b20e6
  • affected 6e0bd6c35b021dc73a81ebd1ef79761233c48b50 – < abc76cf552e13cfa88a204b362a86b0e08e95228

• Linux · Linux

  • affected 3.19
  • unaffected < 3.19
  • unaffected 6.1.55 – ≤ 6.1.*
  • unaffected 6.5.5 – ≤ 6.5.*
  • unaffected 6.6 – ≤ *

References (3)

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7b0fe3487d203c04ee1bda91a63bd4dd398c350 (opens in a new tab)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94332210902967b7d63294b43428c8ed075b20e6 (opens in a new tab)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abc76cf552e13cfa88a204b362a86b0e08e95228 (opens in a new tab)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 11 May 2026, 19:53 UTC.