CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-68351

Low risk· EPSS 11%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

11th percentile - higher than 11% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the carl9170 driver has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in carl9170_cmd_callback. When the firmware sends a response with a length mismatch, memcpy copies len - 4 bytes, which can exceed the readbuf size, causing an overread.

Risk Assessment

Possible kernel memory disclosure or system crash due to buffer overread.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel update that bounds memcpy to min(len - 4, ar->readlen).

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: carl9170: bound memcpy length in cmd callback to prevent OOB read When the firmware sends a command response with a length mismatch, carl9170_cmd_callback() logs the mismatch and calls carl9170_restart() but then falls through to memcpy(ar->readbuf, buffer + 4, len - 4). Since len comes from the firmware and can exceed ar->readlen, this copies more data than the readbuf was allocated for. Bound the memcpy to min(len - 4, ar->readlen) so that the response is still completed -- avoiding repeated restarts from queued garbage -- while preventing an overread past the response buffer.

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