CVE-2026-74408 (GCVE-0-2026-74408)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-15 05:59
Modified
2026-08-17 05:46
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath9k: fix OOB access from firmware tx status queue ID
ath_tx_edma_tasklet() accesses sc->tx.txq[ts.qid] where ts.qid is a
4-bit hardware field (0-15), but the txq array only has
ATH9K_NUM_TX_QUEUES (10) entries. A qid >= 10 causes an OOB array
access.
Add a bounds check on ts.qid before using it as an array index.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: fce041beb03f93c7a771f0b4b6c45bb71ef90901 Version: fce041beb03f93c7a771f0b4b6c45bb71ef90901 Version: fce041beb03f93c7a771f0b4b6c45bb71ef90901 Version: fce041beb03f93c7a771f0b4b6c45bb71ef90901 Version: fce041beb03f93c7a771f0b4b6c45bb71ef90901 Version: fce041beb03f93c7a771f0b4b6c45bb71ef90901 Version: fce041beb03f93c7a771f0b4b6c45bb71ef90901 Version: fce041beb03f93c7a771f0b4b6c45bb71ef90901 |
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