UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-89524
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath6kl: clamp assoc request/response lengths before subtracting IE offsets ath6kl_cf
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath6kl: clamp assoc request/response lengths before subtracting IE offsets
ath6kl_cfg80211_connect_event() subtracts fixed IE offsets from
assoc_req_len (-= 4) and assoc_resp_len (-= 6), both u8, with no lower
bound. The aggregate check recently added to ath6kl_wmi_connect_event_rx()
bounds the declared lengths from above (their sum must fit the received
event), but an assoc request/response shorter than its fixed offset still
underflows here: the u8 wraps to ~250, and cfg80211_connect_result() /
cfg80211_roamed() then treat that wrapped value as the IE length and copy
that many bytes out of the small assoc_info buffer to user space via
nl80211, disclosing adjacent slab memory.
Clamp both lengths to their offsets before subtracting.
Found by 0sec (https://0sec.ai) using automated source analysis; the
missing lower bound is evident from source. Compile-tested.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bbd05723d15dd06f0560bcd94fbf9a91b5f5613
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8eb73016fb3968cf2db3987a92764563a3af773a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1330d719c047c4d8190a16be034b29fc601a815
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3619bed5da125713b29ac881dc66f5e06606f88
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-09-11 via NVD.
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