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  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: set up the TX info early to fix failure paths\n\nThe previous commit 2c51457d930f (\"wifi: mac80211: free ack status\nframe on TX header build failure\") cleaned up the leak, but still\nleft the code a bit messy and the failed SKB didn't get reported\nto userspace.\n\nFix this up by initialising skb-\u003ecb[] earlier, which allows using\nieee80211_free_txskb() and therefore reports it for the failure\nin ieee80211_build_hdr(), and unifies the ieee80211_skb_resize()\nfailure path with it.",
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  "published": "2026-10-06T08:46:18.734Z",
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  "summary": "wifi: mac80211: set up the TX info early to fix failure paths"
}