FKIE_CVE-2026-97518

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-24 17:17 - Updated: 2026-09-24 17:17
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: reject duplicate wiphy cipher suite entries Duplicate entries in wiphy->cipher_suites do not describe any additional capability, but cfg80211 currently accepts them and leaves individual consumers to deal with them. One such consumer is the WEXT compatibility code, which appends a WEP key length for each WEP cipher entry it sees. Repeated WEP entries can therefore overflow the fixed iw_range::encoding_size array returned by SIOCGIWRANGE. Reject duplicate cipher suite entries in wiphy_register() instead. This keeps the cipher suite invariant in one place and makes malformed wiphy descriptions fail early with -EINVAL, rather than relying on a single cfg80211 user to handle duplicates correctly.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1305f8b925fe92edf5fec183588dfc7db719180b
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cbb2360f4d8c29e67bc7a8bf6ba0ae096583923
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7187d145d9042b037e4f10538f70cf95e380219f
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  "id": "CVE-2026-97518",
  "lastModified": "2026-09-24T17:17:29.787",
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