CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68470
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: validate extension-frame layout before RX
Extension frames only have the extension header at the regular 802.11
header offset. The generic RX path can still reach helpers and interface
dispatch code that read regular header address fields before unsupported
extension subtypes are dropped.
mac80211 currently only handles S1G beacon extension frames. Drop other
extension subtypes before they can reach regular-header RX processing.
For S1G beacons, linearize the SKB with the management-frame path and
require the fixed S1G beacon header, including optional fixed fields
indicated by frame control, before generic RX dispatch.
Route S1G beacons through the station/default-link RX path without
regular-header station lookup. Avoid regular-header address reads in the
mac80211 RX paths that process S1G extension beacons, including
accept-frame, duplicate-detection, address-copy, and MLO
address-translation paths.
Also make ieee80211_get_bssid() length-safe before returning the S1G
source-address pointer.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c3d9c6bd5b795f3b952b40d574c8e424e14a39b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57d503ce32eccfa7650065ca4c560f7e29a2e676 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/625fc704b19cb48d7d269ad54ffffb4d3bf9c7ed git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7aba69b611007e11b9b93118ff8fe88998c3107f git.kernel.org