CVE-2026-80935 (GCVE-0-2026-80935)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-11 19:42
Modified
2026-10-21 12:47
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: bound the device EEPROM address before the EFUSE copy mt7996_mcu_get_eeprom() derives the destination of the EFUSE/EXT block copy from the address reported by the MCU response (event->addr, a device-controlled __le32) and clamps only the copy length, never the destination offset into dev->mt76.eeprom.data. A malicious or malfunctioning device can report an arbitrary address and drive an out-of-bounds write of up to MT7996_EXT_EEPROM_BLOCK_SIZE bytes past eeprom.data. Reject a response whose address would place the copy outside eeprom.data before deriving the destination pointer. Devices that echo the requested in-bounds offset are unaffected.
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Linux Linux Version: 98686cd21624c75a043e96812beadddf4f6f48e5
Version: 98686cd21624c75a043e96812beadddf4f6f48e5
Version: 98686cd21624c75a043e96812beadddf4f6f48e5
Version: 98686cd21624c75a043e96812beadddf4f6f48e5
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