UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-93784
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: validate IEs in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie() The KASAN allocation trace shows
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]
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01cc395cecfaa73134d39fb9a401d9605d8bb2c5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2f5286ca4f304d3fd469f01b96b518608912a5c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c970879e03b23a27df42caf7ba506485a165fb96
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-09-24 via NVD.
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