CVE-2026-68352 (GCVE-0-2026-68352)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:03 – Updated: 2026-08-19 16:33
VLAI
Title
wifi: ath6kl: fix OOB read from firmware IE lengths in connect event
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath6kl: fix OOB read from firmware IE lengths in connect event The firmware-controlled beacon_ie_len, assoc_req_len, and assoc_resp_len fields in ath6kl_wmi_connect_event_rx() are not validated against the buffer length. Their sum (up to 765) can exceed the actual WMI event data, causing out-of-bounds reads during IE parsing and state corruption of wmi->is_wmm_enabled. Add a check that the total IE length fits within the buffer.
Severity
8.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < 7cae33e3e09a080db96e3a8980c2c8d288318320 (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < 1eeed9efc9a40e0635e910c37fee86543041b4e1 (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < a38d7d6376b295245b53bc98b7ca682c027abaf7 (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < 1c690f7c4c5b37108ac8c98b94ce1b3c655a4f5e (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < d70c0a850c21b57a6f46ce363860203389bbeaa6 (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < 33b5342d2080657054ddf89ef1199b426a37dae8 (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < 94e1bfcefe8264a207c2fda2febb954e70a34b42 (git)
Affected: bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 , < 6b47b29730de3232b919d8362749f6814c5f2a33 (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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