CVE-2026-80635 (GCVE-0-2026-80635)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-28 06:48
Modified
2026-08-29 06:21
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VLAI Severity ?
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: wcn36xx: fix OOB read from short trigger BA firmware response
The firmware response length is only checked against sizeof(*rsp) (20
bytes), but when candidate_cnt >= 1, a 22-byte candidate struct is read
at buf + 20 without verifying the response contains it. This causes an
out-of-bounds read of stale heap data, corrupting the BA session state.
Add validation that the response includes the candidate data.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: 16be1ac55944412e8d132b1db26f994b368c5742 Version: 16be1ac55944412e8d132b1db26f994b368c5742 Version: 16be1ac55944412e8d132b1db26f994b368c5742 Version: 16be1ac55944412e8d132b1db26f994b368c5742 Version: 16be1ac55944412e8d132b1db26f994b368c5742 Version: 16be1ac55944412e8d132b1db26f994b368c5742 |
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