CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-93784
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-03
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
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]
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01cc395cecfaa73134d39fb9a401d9605d8bb2c5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/269498ce6c1e2132b072aa0c8660404926008f03 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/685082f4be77f4657b498ebbe9f942ef65c492cf git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b921a8993469a3482e0c67b5ce5cb6ce93f5f61 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2f5286ca4f304d3fd469f01b96b518608912a5c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c970879e03b23a27df42caf7ba506485a165fb96 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d01f1600e8b075aa17adb751ac9881bb6ee40dcc git.kernel.org