wifi: libipw: reject too-short association responses (Linux Linux)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.25 % · percentile 16 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- Linux
- NVD status
- Received
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: libipw: reject too-short association responses libipw_handle_assoc_resp() reads the capability, status and aid fields of the 30-byte association response prefix and then computes the information element length as stats->len - sizeof(*frame) stats->len is a u16 and sizeof() has type size_t, so the subtraction is evaluated as size_t and wraps instead of going negative. Truncating that to the u16 length parameter of libipw_parse_info_param() turns a frame shorter than the fixed fields into a length near 64 KiB, and the parser then reads past the receive buffer. Both the ipw2100 and ipw2200 management receive paths reach this function having established only that the frame carries the generic 24-byte three-address header. Reject the frame before any fixed field is touched. Found by an AI-assisted review of length arithmetic in management frame parsers. Verified with a KUnit case under Generic KASAN on arm64 under QEMU; I do not have the hardware, so it is not tested on a real device.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/766268b429ae26d8ca599031fa962b0fe4673120
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d70bdb84cf1782039384c1ffa7a18b0303c286a7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/400b89217058fac672134a0d4092c8493dadb8ad
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46aa75291056b6dc5faaf956dffdb3e9662477b0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3025ecdb2057f866c09e059fc1466e81d6f243e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14cb425ba1f3a5d849e3bbc3d02d84e0ae195dbb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af1b69be19c34e28c0ae54bee954b58cd076969a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adb7118b7d2cfd7e8213c17d7d2829f353017754
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H | Linux |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H | NVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-93333
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-98348
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1375 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Debian LTS · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1374 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Debian · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux · Linux | affected 9e8571affd1c54b9638b4ff9844e47aae07310f6 < 766268b429ae26d8ca599031fa962b0fe4673120 ; affected 9e8571affd1c54b9638b4ff9844e47aae07310f6 < d70bdb84cf1782039384c1ffa7a18b0303c286a7 ; affected 9e8571affd1c54b9638b4ff9844e47aae07310f6 < 400b89217058fac672134a0d4092c8493dadb8ad ; affected 9e8571affd1c54b9638b4ff9844e47aae07310f6 < 46aa75291056b6dc5faaf956dffdb3e9662477b0 ; affected 9e8571affd1c54b9638b4ff9844e47aae07310f6 < e3025ecdb2057f866c09e059fc1466e81d6f243e ; affected 9e8571affd1c54b9638b4ff9844e47aae07310f6 < 14cb425ba1f3a5d849e3bbc3d02d84e0ae195dbb |
| Linux · Linux | affected 2.6.15 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.15 ; unaffected 5.10.271 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.222 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.189 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.* |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |