wifi: cfg80211: validate IEs in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-93784
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: validate IEs in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie() The KASAN allocation trace shows that a malformed IE buffer is stored via SIOCSIWGENIE (cfg80211_wext_siwgenie()) without any validation. The crash trace shows that a subsequent SIOCSIWESSID triggers a connection attempt which calls cfg80211_sme_get_conn_ies() to process the stored IE buffer, causing: - An out-of-bounds read in skip_ie() which reads ies[pos+1] (the length byte) past the end of the 1-byte buffer. - An integer underflow in the memcpy size argument when offs returned by ieee80211_ie_split() exceeds ies_len, causing unsigned subtraction to wrap to SIZE_MAX and triggering a fortify panic. Fix this by validating the IE buffer in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie() before storing it. [drop unnecessary ie_len check, update commit message]

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Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected f21293549f60f88c74fcb9944737f11048896dc4 < 269498ce6c1e2132b072aa0c8660404926008f03 ; affected f21293549f60f88c74fcb9944737f11048896dc4 < 685082f4be77f4657b498ebbe9f942ef65c492cf ; affected f21293549f60f88c74fcb9944737f11048896dc4 < 8b921a8993469a3482e0c67b5ce5cb6ce93f5f61 ; affected f21293549f60f88c74fcb9944737f11048896dc4 < d01f1600e8b075aa17adb751ac9881bb6ee40dcc ; affected f21293549f60f88c74fcb9944737f11048896dc4 < c970879e03b23a27df42caf7ba506485a165fb96 ; affected f21293549f60f88c74fcb9944737f11048896dc4 < 01cc395cecfaa73134d39fb9a401d9605d8bb2c5
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.32 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.32 ; unaffected 5.10.271 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.222 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.189 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.*

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