CVE-2026-68197 (GCVE-0-2026-68197)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:00 – Updated: 2026-08-19 16:31
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Title
wifi: mwifiex: fix NULL dereference when the AP has HT-cap but no HT-oper
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mwifiex: fix NULL dereference when the AP has HT-cap but no HT-oper mwifiex_tdls_add_ht_oper() gates its follow-the-AP-bandwidth path on bss_desc->bcn_ht_cap being present, but then dereferences a different pointer, bss_desc->bcn_ht_oper: if (ISSUPP_CHANWIDTH40(priv->adapter->hw_dot_11n_dev_cap) && bss_desc->bcn_ht_cap && ISALLOWED_CHANWIDTH40(bss_desc->bcn_ht_oper->ht_param)) bcn_ht_cap and bcn_ht_oper are populated independently while parsing the associated AP's beacon in mwifiex_update_bss_desc_with_ie(): an AP that advertises an HT Capabilities element but no HT Operation element leaves bcn_ht_cap non-NULL and bcn_ht_oper NULL. Setting up a TDLS link to a peer while associated to such an AP then dereferences the NULL bcn_ht_oper and crashes the kernel. Every other bcn_ht_oper user in the driver NULL-checks it first. Guard on the pointer that is actually dereferenced. Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).
Severity
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 396939f94084d5923d558e9f22db48bc51156e47 , < e1770f7410b4232a0267924f99751dc9c5ca31af (git)
Affected: 396939f94084d5923d558e9f22db48bc51156e47 , < 8c2058717fd06f05d421c2d3adf1dff3c3abcda1 (git)
Affected: 396939f94084d5923d558e9f22db48bc51156e47 , < fba7eb7b248ea0618235f504158b685d752a153a (git)
Affected: 396939f94084d5923d558e9f22db48bc51156e47 , < eb42c3c8fd479166c42984728754cd779c71fd60 (git)
Affected: 396939f94084d5923d558e9f22db48bc51156e47 , < 45011e4d9ba3f2182e5df64be65888044fa20771 (git)
Affected: 396939f94084d5923d558e9f22db48bc51156e47 , < 9375a4ea4121625ef27a46b74781cda66a5cc61b (git)
Affected: 396939f94084d5923d558e9f22db48bc51156e47 , < cca4398aa305c22016d1714f388e2fa6ea4e5ad4 (git)
Affected: 396939f94084d5923d558e9f22db48bc51156e47 , < c3d68e294cbb6a4090bb219d3dcaca85a011809b (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.265 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.