CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-97442
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-03
- 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: ath11k: fix invalid data access in ath11k_dp_rx_h_undecap_nwifi
In certain cases, hardware might provide packets with a
length greater than the maximum native Wi-Fi header length.
This can lead to accessing and modifying fields in the header
within the ath11k_dp_rx_h_undecap_nwifi() function for the
DP_RX_DECAP_TYPE_NATIVE_WIFI decap type and
potentially result in invalid data access and memory corruption.
Kernel stack is corrupted in: ath11k_dp_rx_h_undecap+0x6b0/0x6b0 [ath11k]
Call trace:
ath11k_dp_rx_h_mpdu+0x0/0x2e8 [ath11k]
ath11k_dp_rx_h_mpdu+0x1e0/0x2e8 [ath11k]
ath11k_dp_rx_wbm_err+0x1e0/0x450 [ath11k]
ath11k_dp_rx_process_wbm_err+0x2fc/0x460 [ath11k]
ath11k_dp_service_srng+0x2e0/0x348 [ath11k]
Add a sanity check before processing the SKB to prevent invalid
data access in the undecap native Wi-Fi function for the
DP_RX_DECAP_TYPE_NATIVE_WIFI decap type.
This adapted from the discussion/patch of the ath12k driver [1].
Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.1 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-04685-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_IOE-1
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00738665c875ab34efa7126ea63c9d70b48ee169 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c0a13be76db3c1cf774aa11d9f4c3f8239ac567 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b471e9aefee9ed73278eb1141e0d8530a56fae9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/958cf3696ddc5ccafd3d0b8b0c03d90bcd771c0c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4ef30f1d107aae460edf731a7c2d187fbc46a32 git.kernel.org