CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68373
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
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.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4875680d1703f56afa6257ba30244f2fb44ed205 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61a799ffd1e5a4fd3702d547828b7ff3d161468e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b406f33d234f98c8b310fdab5cbb492d85e98e49 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcde7249d45f52f994a9872bedf45994472ade77 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb831aff2f850f72bc5ff5ad77d0a70bb5a84061 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e165a1d295e7e814e13b0f92c86e5d48309509ce git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f742d9c98b5c504fc9e6744eef13a721c2aea486 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb1b50ab699211e777dca5ccfb648788b6a6e519 git.kernel.org