wifi: avoid kernel-infoleak from struct iw_point (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-22978
LOW 3.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.14 % · percentile 3 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: avoid kernel-infoleak from struct iw_point struct iw_point has a 32bit hole on 64bit arches. struct iw_point { void __user *pointer; /* Pointer to the data (in user space) */ __u16 length; /* number of fields or size in bytes */ __u16 flags; /* Optional params */ }; Make sure to zero the structure to avoid disclosing 32bits of kernel data to user space.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 87de87d5e47f94b4ea647a5bd1bc8dc1f7930db4 < d943b5f592767b107ba8c12a902f17431350378c ; affected 87de87d5e47f94b4ea647a5bd1bc8dc1f7930db4 < a3827e310b5a73535646ef4a552d53b3c8bf74f6 ; affected 87de87d5e47f94b4ea647a5bd1bc8dc1f7930db4 < 442ceac0393185e9982323f6682a52a53e8462b1 ; affected 87de87d5e47f94b4ea647a5bd1bc8dc1f7930db4 < d21ec867d84c9f3a9845d7d8c90c9ce35dbe48f8 ; affected 87de87d5e47f94b4ea647a5bd1bc8dc1f7930db4 < 024f71a57d563fbe162e528c8bf2d27e9cac7c7b ; affected 87de87d5e47f94b4ea647a5bd1bc8dc1f7930db4 < e3c35177103ead4658b8a62f41e3080d45885464
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.27 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.27 ; unaffected 5.10.248 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.198 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.161 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.121 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD