CVE-2026-53182 (GCVE-0-2026-53182)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-25 08:38 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:33
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
wifi: nl80211: reject oversized EMA RNR lists
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: nl80211: reject oversized EMA RNR lists
nl80211_parse_rnr_elems() stores the parsed element count in a
u8-backed cfg80211_rnr_elems::cnt field and uses that count to size
the flexible array allocation.
Reject nested NL80211_ATTR_EMA_RNR_ELEMS input once the count reaches
255, before incrementing it again. This keeps the parser aligned with
the data structure it fills and matches the existing bound check used
by nl80211_parse_mbssid_elems().
Severity
7.8 (High)
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
56189d7bc30531def6b999f27940ee43c6ff2569 , < fc0ec2fc02dfe52c5821f36fbccf6a45df43f508
(git)
Affected: dbbb27e183b1568d5a907ace1cd144b0709ea52a , < 688fcac7054abc680c0eef753f2bb772cfaf8cf7 (git) Affected: dbbb27e183b1568d5a907ace1cd144b0709ea52a , < 30c3fa80f423613efdda3deca4af52ff7d20e4e2 (git) Affected: dbbb27e183b1568d5a907ace1cd144b0709ea52a , < 265c07c09c837621730d35f02975207a1224bf05 (git) Affected: dbbb27e183b1568d5a907ace1cd144b0709ea52a , < ecbf3c45add30a0857414e156bdb9c79906f0ff6 (git) Affected: dbbb27e183b1568d5a907ace1cd144b0709ea52a , < 4cd92957e8f8cc4ebfe8a5d4203c14c592fde6b1 (git) Affected: 6.1.160 , < 6.1.176 (semver) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.176 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.143 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.94 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.36 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.13 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
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.
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