CVE-2026-68351 PUBLISHED

wifi: carl9170: bound memcpy length in cmd callback to prevent OOB read

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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

wifi: carl9170: bound memcpy length in cmd callback to prevent OOB read

When the firmware sends a command response with a length mismatch, carl9170_cmd_callback() logs the mismatch and calls carl9170_restart() but then falls through to memcpy(ar->readbuf, buffer + 4, len - 4). Since len comes from the firmware and can exceed ar->readlen, this copies more data than the readbuf was allocated for.

Bound the memcpy to min(len - 4, ar->readlen) so that the response is still completed -- avoiding repeated restarts from queued garbage -- while preventing an overread past the response buffer.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from a84fab3cbfdc427e7d366f1cc844f27b2084c26c to f74e34e66379e487a09009a4f2d42470051672bd (excl.)
  • affected from a84fab3cbfdc427e7d366f1cc844f27b2084c26c to 500c36649f270de05a56591fcc1aaaa36687958e (excl.)
  • affected from a84fab3cbfdc427e7d366f1cc844f27b2084c26c to 9aee949c68dc6dccbc54333537b109c53fe2079f (excl.)
  • affected from a84fab3cbfdc427e7d366f1cc844f27b2084c26c to cb7a38810cf25738176dac32dec7a146b3f959cf (excl.)
  • affected from a84fab3cbfdc427e7d366f1cc844f27b2084c26c to 4cde55b2feff9504d1f993ab80e84e7ccb62791c (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.37 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.37 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.148 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc5 to * (incl.)

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