CVE-2026-68411

wifi: mac80211_hwsim: clamp virtio RX length before skb_put

N/A
Published: August 10, 2026 at 12:04 PM UTC
Updated: August 19, 2026 at 05:20 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211_hwsim: clamp virtio RX length before skb_put hwsim_virtio_rx_work() passes the virtqueue used-ring length reported by the device straight to skb_put() on a fixed-size receive skb. A backend reporting a length larger than the skb tailroom drives skb_put() past the buffer end and hits skb_over_panic() -- a host-triggerable guest panic (denial of service). Clamp the length to the skb's available room before skb_put(). A conforming device never reports more than the posted buffer size, so valid frames are unaffected; a truncated over-report then fails the length/header checks in hwsim_virtio_handle_cmd() and is dropped, so truncating rather than dropping here cannot be turned into a parsing problem.

Affected

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

5.7 ≤ v < 5.10.2655.7 ≤ v < 5.15.2165.7 ≤ v < 6.1.1835.7 ≤ v < 6.12.1015.7 ≤ v < 6.18.425.7 ≤ v < 6.6.1485.7 ≤ v < 7.1.65.7 ≤ v < 7.25.75d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1
Vendor states this is fixed in 10a2b430f8f06ae14b9590b6f6faa6b588ef0654 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5779e4a33e1666ddfeba43e96e29c4a9e5254ff0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6dc76371a9a360c29de00df5b11563102d9d675a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7f9d678b870fca8eaf1d46fa915cba0b1d5b387a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 82c5a30a66e2a7337d99476c67d6fc1a99c4250e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 909573d6a9b67354fc0515952574564e7c909c62 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 99dc05c75acc3c8cde8d89c5371f4b569de5ac62 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fade308845c89f784da8a6780c1e77258488f1b6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.265 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.216 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.183 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.101 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.148 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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