Copyright © 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. Important 2026-05-28T00:00:00 kernel: wifi: mac80211: drop stray 'static' from fast-RX rx_result 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CWE-1058

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: drop stray 'static' from fast-RX rx_result ieee80211_invoke_fast_rx() is documented as safe for parallel RX, but its per-invocation rx_result is declared static. Concurrent callers then share one instance and can overwrite each other's result between ieee80211_rx_mesh_data() and the switch on res. That can make a packet that was queued or consumed by ieee80211_rx_mesh_data() fall through into ieee80211_rx_8023(), or make a packet that should continue return as queued. Make res an automatic variable so each invocation keeps its own result.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Wi-Fi (mac80211) subsystem. The `ieee80211_invoke_fast_rx()` function uses a static variable for `rx_result`, which is shared across concurrent calls. This can lead to incorrect processing of Wi-Fi packets, where a packet might be mishandled or its status incorrectly reported. Such issues can result in unexpected network behavior or a denial of service within the wireless communication.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Under investigation kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Affected kernel-rt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46152 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46152 https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026052822-CVE-2026-46152-ec8a@gregkh/T