CVE-2026-46307

wifi: ath5k: do not access array OOB

HIGH
8.3
CVSS Score
Published: June 8, 2026 at 03:46 PM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 02:19 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH8.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath5k: do not access array OOB Vincent reports: > The ath5k driver seems to do an array-index-out-of-bounds access as > shown by the UBSAN kernel message: > UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c:1741:20 > index 4 is out of range for type 'ieee80211_tx_rate [4]' > ... > Call Trace: > <TASK> > dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80 > ubsan_epilogue+0x5/0x2b > __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold+0x46/0x4b > ath5k_tasklet_tx+0x4e0/0x560 [ath5k] > tasklet_action_common+0xb5/0x1c0 It is real. 'ts->ts_final_idx' can be 3 on 5212, so: info->status.rates[ts->ts_final_idx + 1].idx = -1; with the array defined as: struct ieee80211_tx_rate rates[IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES]; while the size is: #define IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES 4 is indeed bogus. Set this 'idx = -1' sentinel only if the array index is less than the array size. As mac80211 will not look at rates beyond the size (IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES). Note: The effect of the OOB write is negligible. It just overwrites the next member of info->status, i.e. ack_signal.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

3.0 ≤ v < 5.10.2585.11 ≤ v < 5.15.2095.16 ≤ v < 6.1.1756.13 ≤ v < 6.18.306.19 ≤ v < 7.0.76.2 ≤ v < 6.6.1406.7 ≤ v < 6.12.886d7b97b23e114c8fbb825e6721164d228c1af3fc7.17.1 rc17.1 rc2
Vendor states this is fixed in 568173ad9bd0b46cc6cd937dea8791e9b5eefa57 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 744c19e266b0d2628c5951439195dcef27eadacf (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 83226c71af53fb9b3cad40cb9a9a79f36d68c020 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9dd6aae4bc7bfa11088d928670a3315eae542769 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d6869537013b1f21b292342752d97868b79b5934 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d748603f12baff112caa3ab7d39f50100f010dbd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e9f1081bc775146156def0dbc821b92f35d56afb (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ecb1c163166759dec004c1fdb9709b8a5992fc8e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3.0 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.258 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.209 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.175 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.88 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.30 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.140 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)

CVSS

8.3HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125

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