CWE-670: Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.7,6.6.160)[6.7,6.12.113)[6.13,6.18.56)[6.19,7.2.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-21244217
  • published19 Oct 2026
  • disclosed18 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-98700  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-670  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to CWE-670: Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation in the ieee80211_8023_xmit process. An attacker can cause incorrect transmission rate selection by sending specially crafted 802.3 encapsulated frames when the channel context is not properly set.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1