CVE-2026-98350 (GCVE-0-2026-98350)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-06 08:46 – Updated: 2026-10-06 08:46
VLAI
Title
wifi: brcmfmac: cyw: pass PMKID to firmware if present
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: cyw: pass PMKID to firmware if present Zero out auth_status on initialization. Otherwise, garbage will leak from the stack to the firmware (when ssid is less than 32 bytes and/or when params->pmkid is set). Then, pass the params->pmkid to the firmware (without it, the firmware caches a garbage PMKID on successful authentication and denies a subsequent association request that includes the PMKID).
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No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 66f909308a7c05082919ff214a0bbe2a76aa0283 , < c2cf589c7d546557ed60c43f2ec014279265dfbf (git)
Affected: 66f909308a7c05082919ff214a0bbe2a76aa0283 , < 6fba6233e9ca7718661e53555a3961c58772c21a (git)
Affected: 66f909308a7c05082919ff214a0bbe2a76aa0283 , < e2de8d5eb2984416affdd9559e55f37c7f1bbf47 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.54 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.8 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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