wifi: iwlwifi: fix 22000 series SMEM parsing (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-43172
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.33 % · percentile 26 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: fix 22000 series SMEM parsing If the firmware were to report three LMACs (which doesn't exist in hardware) then using "fwrt->smem_cfg.lmac[2]" is an overrun of the array. Reject such and use IWL_FW_CHECK instead of WARN_ON in this function.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-129 — Improper Validation of Array Index

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected ebfa7f8ae155c9a0bb2e4038d6b5d8b14881c424 < 5cc021586420c5e13acc65da5bf73edd451e2c3e ; affected ebfa7f8ae155c9a0bb2e4038d6b5d8b14881c424 < b23c7cd616a6a113363be707b7b9e4bc41b18a07 ; affected ebfa7f8ae155c9a0bb2e4038d6b5d8b14881c424 < 1d49a42717bdc8de77eabeb5b7d3e88d141ffea9 ; affected ebfa7f8ae155c9a0bb2e4038d6b5d8b14881c424 < 2b4b1510aaaf5b9fb57327ecffc20c055f61f205 ; affected ebfa7f8ae155c9a0bb2e4038d6b5d8b14881c424 < 58192b9ce09b0f0f86e2036683bd542130b91a98
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.8 ; unaffected 0 < 5.8 ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.114 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.16 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 6.19.6 ≤ 6.19.*

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