CVE-2026-12999
MediumCVSS 5.3Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs
Summary
The Infineon Airoc Wi-Fi driver has a buffer leak vulnerability in the airoc_mgmt_send() function. On every failed packet transmission, a buffer from the small fixed pool is not released, leading to pool exhaustion. Once the pool is exhausted, both transmit and receive paths fail, causing permanent loss of Wi-Fi connectivity until the device is rebooted.
Risk Assessment
An attacker within Wi-Fi range can intentionally trigger transmission errors (e.g., by deauthenticating the station), leading to buffer pool exhaustion and a permanent denial of service (DoS) on the device. The failure is unrecoverable without a reboot, potentially disrupting systems that rely on wireless connectivity.
Recommendation
Apply the vendor's patch (Infineon) as soon as possible, which releases the buffer on the error path. Until the patch is deployed, monitor device availability and plan for reboots if pool exhaustion symptoms occur.
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Original NVD description (English source)
The Infineon Airoc Wi-Fi driver's transmit callback airoc_mgmt_send() in drivers/wifi/infineon/airoc_wifi.c allocates a net_buf from the fixed airoc_pool for every outbound packet. When whd_network_send_ethernet_data() returns a synchronous failure, the underlying WHD library does not take ownership of the buffer, but the pre-fix driver returned -EIO without releasing it. Each failed transmit therefore permanently leaks one buffer from the pool. airoc_pool is small and fixed (AIROC_WIFI_TX_PACKET_POOL_COUNT + AIROC_WIFI_RX_PACKET_POOL_COUNT, default 20 buffers) and is shared by WHD's whd_host_buffer_get callback for both transmit and receive. Once enough send failures have leaked the pool dry, airoc_wifi_host_buffer_get() returns WHD_BUFFER_ALLOC_FAIL for all subsequent allocations, so both transmit and the WHD-driven receive path fail and Wi-Fi connectivity is lost until the device is rebooted. The leak occurs only on the transmit error path. A Wi-Fi-adjacent attacker can influence the conditions that cause synchronous send failures (for example by deauthenticating/disassociating the station while the local stack continues to attempt transmits), and ordinary transient failures over the device's lifetime accumulate toward the same state. Reliable on-demand triggering is of high complexity and the impact is availability-only, but the resulting denial of service is permanent and non-recoverable without a reboot. The fix releases the buffer with airoc_wifi_buffer_release() on the failure branch, returning it to the pool. The commit also removes a redundant k_sem_give() in airoc_mgmt_disconnect(); because data->sema_common is a binary semaphore (limit 1) the duplicate give merely saturated at 1 and had no security impact.