CVE-2026-68411 PUBLISHED

wifi: mac80211_hwsim: clamp virtio RX length before skb_put

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: mac80211_hwsim: clamp virtio RX length before skb_put

hwsim_virtio_rx_work() passes the virtqueue used-ring length reported by the device straight to skb_put() on a fixed-size receive skb. A backend reporting a length larger than the skb tailroom drives skb_put() past the buffer end and hits skb_over_panic() -- a host-triggerable guest panic (denial of service).

Clamp the length to the skb's available room before skb_put(). A conforming device never reports more than the posted buffer size, so valid frames are unaffected; a truncated over-report then fails the length/header checks in hwsim_virtio_handle_cmd() and is dropped, so truncating rather than dropping here cannot be turned into a parsing problem.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1 to 82c5a30a66e2a7337d99476c67d6fc1a99c4250e (excl.)
  • affected from 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1 to fade308845c89f784da8a6780c1e77258488f1b6 (excl.)
  • affected from 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1 to 6dc76371a9a360c29de00df5b11563102d9d675a (excl.)
  • affected from 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1 to 99dc05c75acc3c8cde8d89c5371f4b569de5ac62 (excl.)
  • affected from 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1 to 10a2b430f8f06ae14b9590b6f6faa6b588ef0654 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.7 (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-rc4 to * (incl.)

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