UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-68373
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: at76c50x-usb: avoid length underflow in at76_guess_freq() at76_guess_freq() checks o
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: at76c50x-usb: avoid length underflow in at76_guess_freq()
at76_guess_freq() checks only that the received frame is at least a bare
802.11 header (24 bytes) before subtracting the fixed management-body
offset:
len -= el_off;
For both beacon and probe response frames, el_off is 36. If the frame is
shorter than el_off, subtracting it causes the calculated IE length to
wrap. The length is eventually passed to cfg80211_find_elem_match() as a
very large unsigned value, so the element walk runs beyond the RX skb.
This path is reached from at76_rx_tasklet() while scanning. If the device
delivers a truncated beacon or probe response, the oversized IE length
causes an out-of-bounds read during scanning.
Skip the IE lookup if the frame does not reach the variable elements,
before subtracting el_off.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61a799ffd1e5a4fd3702d547828b7ff3d161468e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcde7249d45f52f994a9872bedf45994472ade77
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e165a1d295e7e814e13b0f92c86e5d48309509ce
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f742d9c98b5c504fc9e6744eef13a721c2aea486
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb1b50ab699211e777dca5ccfb648788b6a6e519
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-08-10 via NVD.
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