CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98828
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath9k: reject short WMI command responses
ath9k_wmi_rsp_callback() removes the validated WMI header and copies
the number of bytes expected by the waiting command into its response
buffer. A device response shorter than that expectation can therefore
be read beyond the skb payload.
Record -EMSGSIZE for a short response, complete the waiter, and return
the stored status from the command path. This also prevents callers from
consuming stale response bytes as a successful reply.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03ef61d05aa26022327f971b790f07e6bf6e35d6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93ce8ea70451e800601bc9444aa33043de15d67b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3b0137c855a61371d9cf9993b8bcc33c9798202 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0c21130c1c7791ba73b19a3a9ea767c8cd43745 git.kernel.org