CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98698
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: handle empty FILS association request payload
fils_encrypt_assoc_req() accepts a (Re)Association Request frame whose
last element is the FILS Session element. crypt_len is then zero and
aes_siv_encrypt() is called with an empty plaintext.
kmemdup() returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR for a zero-length allocation, so the
unconditional sg_init_one() puts an invalid page into the scatterlist.
With CONFIG_DEBUG_SG this triggers a kernel BUG in sg_set_buf();
without the debug check the bogus page is handed to the crypto backend.
AES-SIV is defined for empty plaintext and the S2V result is then the
complete output, so handle this case before the CTR step, which has
nothing to encrypt.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b1e4a7eeb6a301ee33bd318982927cbdbae9f36 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20f939b0c151d1d28e6b62a76b2454fa6fe877f2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f5b62f6534d336a62fdb9e88b186dd70b4323ef git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/452f1c9b76f7a122bbc4630b9691bda4809677c4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bfd4b0b40b79781d900cb2f7da0685070f53c67 git.kernel.org