CVE-2026-93784

wifi: cfg80211: validate IEs in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie()

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Published: September 24, 2026 at 04:02 PM UTC
Updated: October 3, 2026 at 11:17 AM 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: cfg80211: validate IEs in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie() The KASAN allocation trace shows that a malformed IE buffer is stored via SIOCSIWGENIE (cfg80211_wext_siwgenie()) without any validation. The crash trace shows that a subsequent SIOCSIWESSID triggers a connection attempt which calls cfg80211_sme_get_conn_ies() to process the stored IE buffer, causing: - An out-of-bounds read in skip_ie() which reads ies[pos+1] (the length byte) past the end of the 1-byte buffer. - An integer underflow in the memcpy size argument when offs returned by ieee80211_ie_split() exceeds ies_len, causing unsigned subtraction to wrap to SIZE_MAX and triggering a fortify panic. Fix this by validating the IE buffer in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie() before storing it. [drop unnecessary ie_len check, update commit message]

Affected

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

2.6.32 ≤ v < 5.10.2712.6.32 ≤ v < 5.15.2222.6.32 ≤ v < 6.1.1892.6.32 ≤ v < 6.12.1112.6.32 ≤ v < 6.18.532.6.32 ≤ v < 6.6.1582.6.32 ≤ v < 7.22.6.32f21293549f60f88c74fcb9944737f11048896dc4
Vendor states this is fixed in 01cc395cecfaa73134d39fb9a401d9605d8bb2c5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 269498ce6c1e2132b072aa0c8660404926008f03 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 685082f4be77f4657b498ebbe9f942ef65c492cf (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8b921a8993469a3482e0c67b5ce5cb6ce93f5f61 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a2f5286ca4f304d3fd469f01b96b518608912a5c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c970879e03b23a27df42caf7ba506485a165fb96 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d01f1600e8b075aa17adb751ac9881bb6ee40dcc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.32 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.271 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.222 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.189 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.111 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.53 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.158 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

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