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CVE-2026-80937 (GCVE-0-2026-80937)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:42 – Updated: 2026-09-13 06:28
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Title
wifi: mt76: mt7915: bound the device EEPROM address before the EFUSE copy
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7915: bound the device EEPROM address before the EFUSE copy mt7915_mcu_get_eeprom() copies a fixed EFUSE block into the driver's dev->mt76.eeprom.data buffer at the offset reported by the MCU response (res->addr, a device-controlled __le32) without checking it against the buffer size. A malicious or malfunctioning device can report an arbitrary address and drive a 16-byte out-of-bounds write past eeprom.data. Reject a response whose address would place the copy outside eeprom.data before deriving the destination pointer. Devices that echo the requested in-bounds offset are unaffected.
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: e57b7901469fc0b021930b83a8094baaf3d81b09 , < 5fdaf7016d7684ef756a229fd5d96b4a140eeb40 (git)
Affected: e57b7901469fc0b021930b83a8094baaf3d81b09 , < 5f48b0d752a76590e2c613aae5345c2474627d1b (git)
Affected: e57b7901469fc0b021930b83a8094baaf3d81b09 , < 44b5adfe49499f53002737f5fe81d608c08122fc (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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