CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68471
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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ieee80211: validate MLE common info length
ieee80211_mle_common_size() uses the first common-info octet as the
common information length for all known MLE types. However,
ieee80211_mle_size_ok() only validates that octet for Basic, Probe
Request, and TDLS MLEs.
Reconfiguration MLEs also skipped the length octet when calculating the
minimum common size, and Priority Access MLEs skipped validation of the
advertised common information length.
Account for the Reconfiguration common-info length octet and validate
the advertised common information length for all known MLE types. Keep
unknown-type handling unchanged.
[remove now misleading comment]
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/181b46e76a218e9345ed7c4cf59dfa69278e4a06 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22941b5c5c46e61a7053e5f32f260f2bc39da617 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/293baeae9b2434a3e432629d7720b5603db2d77e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b1589fd9a076727a73bfb39e96622a76415ad32 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90576bd6921a91eb038bffbb4b9467c2dc26aa1d git.kernel.org