CVE-2026-64223 PUBLISHED

wifi: mac80211: consume only present negotiated TTLM maps

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 24.07.2026 Updated: 24.07.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: consume only present negotiated TTLM maps

ieee80211_tid_to_link_map_size_ok() validates negotiated TTLM elements against the number of link-map entries indicated by link_map_presence. ieee80211_parse_neg_ttlm() must consume the same layout.

The parser advanced its cursor for every TID, including TIDs whose presence bit is clear and therefore have no map bytes in the element. A sparse map can then make a later present TID read past the validated element.

The bad bytes land in neg_ttlm->{up,down}link[tid] but are gated by valid_links before being applied to driver state, so a peer cannot turn the read into a policy change. Under KUnit + KASAN with an exact-sized element allocation the OOB read is reported as a slab-out-of-bounds; whether the same trigger fires under the production RX path depends on surrounding allocator state.

Advance the cursor only when the current TID has a map present.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8f500fbc6c655976c8062b1f1e55bd0b3095d6c2 to f7d395dc5008168ac5b9c1ac2791e59a6078cca1 (excl.)
  • affected from 8f500fbc6c655976c8062b1f1e55bd0b3095d6c2 to 2dd9304727c7041df0a599595910bdbe02ad03c5 (excl.)
  • affected from 8f500fbc6c655976c8062b1f1e55bd0b3095d6c2 to 2becaaeebe230ade1fcd5d0f1cde4d6ee93ec78f (excl.)
  • affected from 8f500fbc6c655976c8062b1f1e55bd0b3095d6c2 to a6e6ccd5bd07155c2add6c74ce1a5e68ad3b95ea (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.9 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.9 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.92 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.34 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.11 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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