CVE-2026-68199 (GCVE-0-2026-68199)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:00 – Updated: 2026-08-19 16:31
VLAI
Title
wifi: ath6kl: fix OOB access from firmware ADDBA window size
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath6kl: fix OOB access from firmware ADDBA window size aggr_recv_addba_req_evt() logs a debug message when the firmware-supplied win_sz is outside [AGGR_WIN_SZ_MIN, AGGR_WIN_SZ_MAX] but does not return. The out-of-range win_sz is then used in TID_WINDOW_SZ() to compute a kzalloc size and stored in rxtid->hold_q_sz, leading to zero-size or overflowed allocations and subsequent out-of-bounds access. Clean up any previously active aggregation session for the TID first, then return early when win_sz is out of the valid range, instead of proceeding with a broken allocation size.
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: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < c8e3ca7954d8233fbc54bd370c1827670f43c538 (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < f480d9910fcfe326db3a6281df80e83af347193e (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < 67bc9af4f41f2bdba20404fbd753b2a1bd6dd352 (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < d4558c140782180e2c80a7588a4af9f8675adfc4 (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < 5a65fd4722416061698b0a3277222381efbc4882 (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < 58c6c8dc2e022e1b4f3dc58725a1ca49ff470f9c (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < cec0a487cf38ac1f9bca240ffe8a94c5014b72f2 (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < 44126b6994eeb28f2103b638e698f40a1244f327 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.2 (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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