CVE-2026-72003

wifi: brcmfmac: cyw: fix heap overflow on a short auth frame

HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.35 % · percentile 29 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: cyw: fix heap overflow on a short auth frame brcmf_notify_auth_frame_rx() takes the frame length from the firmware event and copies the frame body with the management header offset subtracted: u32 mgmt_frame_len = e->datalen - sizeof(struct brcmf_rx_mgmt_data); ... memcpy(&mgmt_frame->u, frame, mgmt_frame_len - offsetof(struct ieee80211_mgmt, u)); The only length check is e->datalen >= sizeof(*rxframe), so mgmt_frame_len can be anything from 0 up. offsetof(struct ieee80211_mgmt, u) is 24. When mgmt_frame_len is below that, the subtraction wraps as an unsigned value to a huge length. The memcpy then runs far past the kzalloc'd buffer. A malicious or malfunctioning AP can make the frame short during the external SAE auth exchange, so this is a remotely triggered heap overflow. Reject frames shorter than the management header offset before the copy.

Weaknesses (CWE)

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 products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 66f909308a7c05082919ff214a0bbe2a76aa0283 < 55b26abb1fa1ec406b3ad11b43c49c7624257565 ; affected 66f909308a7c05082919ff214a0bbe2a76aa0283 < 185bb156c427d0f865d344a6d0eaa02c6d05cc57 ; affected 66f909308a7c05082919ff214a0bbe2a76aa0283 < 240c8d2c717b3f8153e7e877b22a82518d78dbdc
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.16 ; unaffected 0 < 6.16 ; unaffected 6.18.40 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.1.5 ≤ 7.1.* ; unaffected 7.2 ≤ *

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