CVE-2026-98348
HighCVSS 7.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk17th percentile - higher than 17% of all known CVEs
Summary
In the Linux kernel wifi libipw subsystem, a vulnerability was fixed by rejecting too-short association responses. libipw_handle_assoc_resp() reads fields from a 30-byte prefix, but receive paths only guarantee a 24-byte header. Length calculation wraps and causes out-of-bounds read.
Risk Assessment
A remote attacker could send a short association frame, leading to kernel memory corruption and system crash.
Recommendation
Install the Linux kernel patch that rejects too-short frames before touching fixed fields. Monitor the network for suspicious management frames.
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Original NVD description (English source)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: libipw: reject too-short association responses libipw_handle_assoc_resp() reads the capability, status and aid fields of the 30-byte association response prefix and then computes the information element length as stats->len - sizeof(*frame) stats->len is a u16 and sizeof() has type size_t, so the subtraction is evaluated as size_t and wraps instead of going negative. Truncating that to the u16 length parameter of libipw_parse_info_param() turns a frame shorter than the fixed fields into a length near 64 KiB, and the parser then reads past the receive buffer. Both the ipw2100 and ipw2200 management receive paths reach this function having established only that the frame carries the generic 24-byte three-address header. Reject the frame before any fixed field is touched. Found by an AI-assisted review of length arithmetic in management frame parsers. Verified with a KUnit case under Generic KASAN on arm64 under QEMU; I do not have the hardware, so it is not tested on a real device.
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