CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-93806

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.24%

13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the wifi cfg80211 subsystem's cfg80211_rx_assoc_resp() initializes the status and response-IE fields from the management frame before proving the frame is long enough for those offsets. The S1G path only patches resp_ie after the unsafe initializer has already run.

Risk Assessment

An out-of-bounds read of the frame may occur, potentially leading to data disclosure or kernel crash.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that validates the minimum frame length before accessing status and IE fields.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: validate assoc response length before status and IE access cfg80211_rx_assoc_resp() initialises the status and response-IE fields of cfg80211_connect_resp_params from the management frame before proving that the frame is long enough for those offsets. S1G and regular association responses also have different IE offsets, but the S1G path only patched resp_ie after the unsafe initialiser had already run. Defer resp_ie, resp_ie_len, and status to after the link-iteration loop. Use a bool to remember whether the frame is S1G, then validate the appropriate minimum length and set all three fields in a single if/else block. Funnel short-frame and SME-reject cleanup through a shared free_bss label for the abandon paths.

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