CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-90398
8.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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: ath11k: fix stride mismatch in mac_phy_caps_parse()
Currently, in ath11k_wmi_tlv_mac_phy_caps_parse(), kcalloc() sizes the
mac_phy_caps buffer as tot_phy_id * len, where len is clamped to
min(firmware_len, sizeof(struct wmi_mac_phy_capabilities)). The subsequent
memcpy() destination advances by sizeof(full struct) per slot via C
pointer arithmetic, not by the clamped len. When firmware sends short
TLVs, the second and later slots are written past the end of the
allocation.
The reader in ath11k_pull_mac_phy_cap_svc_ready_ext() also indexes the
buffer with full-struct pointer arithmetic, so the allocation must match
that stride.
Fix by using kzalloc_objs(), which derives the element size from the
pointer type, making allocation size and pointer stride provably
consistent regardless of what len the firmware provides.
Compile tested only.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75185e2b214e842b7e0af29e5d1fef155662b8b1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a246c72132eb943b5844ba79dad597b47429dba git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acff2713c3212ade15051e7b421f15c89927e70f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2ecd548f89a4a6c14b5eb4abc825f92b3068dda git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbb3b3334a9ed850c5b332eedea107796e691237 git.kernel.org