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CVE-2026-64030

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.24%

15th percentile - higher than 15% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's mac80211 subsystem, a vulnerability was found due to missing bounds checking of the link_id in ieee80211_ml_epcs. An attacker WiFi 7 AP can send a crafted EPCS Enable Response frame with link_id=15, causing an out-of-bounds read and kernel crash.

Risk Assessment

The risk is a remote kernel crash triggered by a malicious WiFi 7 access point, potentially leading to system downtime and data loss.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2026-64030. Monitor official security advisories from your Linux distribution.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_epcs IEEE80211_MLE_STA_EPCS_CONTROL_LINK_ID is 0x000f, so link_id extracted from a PRIO_ACCESS ML element PER_STA_PROFILE subelement can be 0..15. sdata->link[] has IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS (15) entries (indices 0..14), making index 15 out-of-bounds. A connected WiFi 7 AP can trigger this by sending an EPCS Enable Response action frame with a PER_STA_PROFILE subelement where link_id = 15. The unsolicited-notification path (dialog_token = 0) is reachable any time EPCS is already enabled, without any prior client request. sdata->link[15] reads into the first word of sdata->activate_links_work (a wiphy_work whose embedded list_head is non-NULL after INIT_LIST_HEAD), so the NULL check on the result does not catch the invalid access. The garbage pointer is then passed to ieee80211_sta_wmm_params(), which dereferences link->sdata and crashes the kernel. The same class of bug was fixed for ieee80211_ml_reconfiguration() by commit 162d331d833d ("wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_reconfiguration").

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