CVE-2026-93784: vulnerability in Linux
wifi: cfg80211: validate IEs in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie()
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01cc395cecfaa73134d39fb9a401d9605d8bb2c5https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/269498ce6c1e2132b072aa0c8660404926008f03https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/685082f4be77f4657b498ebbe9f942ef65c492cfhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b921a8993469a3482e0c67b5ce5cb6ce93f5f61https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2f5286ca4f304d3fd469f01b96b518608912a5chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c970879e03b23a27df42caf7ba506485a165fb96https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d01f1600e8b075aa17adb751ac9881bb6ee40dcc