CVE-2026-23246 (GCVE-0-2026-23246)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-18 10:05 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:20
VLAI
Title
wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_reconfiguration
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_reconfiguration link_id is taken from the ML Reconfiguration element (control & 0x000f), so it can be 0..15. link_removal_timeout[] has IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS (15) elements, so index 15 is out-of-bounds. Skip subelements with link_id >= IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS to avoid a stack out-of-bounds write.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8eb8dd2ffbbb6b0b8843b66754ee9f129f1b2d6c , < 650981e718e68005ca2760a6358134b8a98ebea4 (git)
Affected: 8eb8dd2ffbbb6b0b8843b66754ee9f129f1b2d6c , < bfde158d5d1322c0c2df398a8d1ccce04943be2e (git)
Affected: 8eb8dd2ffbbb6b0b8843b66754ee9f129f1b2d6c , < f35ceec54d48e227fa46f8f97fd100a77b8eab15 (git)
Affected: 8eb8dd2ffbbb6b0b8843b66754ee9f129f1b2d6c , < d58d71c2167601762351962b9604808d3be94400 (git)
Affected: 8eb8dd2ffbbb6b0b8843b66754ee9f129f1b2d6c , < 162d331d833dc73a3e905a24c44dd33732af1fc5 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.130 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.77 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.17 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.7 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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