CVE-2026-80937 (GCVE-0-2026-80937)
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: mt7915: bound the device EEPROM address before the EFUSE copy mt7915_mcu_get_eeprom() copies a fixed EFUSE block into the driver's dev->mt76.eeprom.data buffer at the offset reported by the MCU response (res->addr, a device-controlled __le32) without checking it against the buffer size. A malicious or malfunctioning device can report an arbitrary address and drive a 16-byte out-of-bounds write 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: e57b7901469fc0b021930b83a8094baaf3d81b09
Version: e57b7901469fc0b021930b83a8094baaf3d81b09
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