CVE-2026-92496 PUBLISHED

wifi: ath11k: Avoid buffer overread in ath11k_wmi_tlv_op_rx()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 16.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

wifi: ath11k: Avoid buffer overread in ath11k_wmi_tlv_op_rx()

Currently, in ath11k_wmi_tlv_op_rx(), the firmware buffer is read without first verifying that the buffer has enough data to hold a header. This could result in a buffer overread.

Add an upfront length check before dereferencing skb->data as a wmi_cmd_hdr. The check is placed before the trace_ath11k_wmi_event() call to preserve the existing trace semantics (tracing the full raw WMI event including the header), unlike the analogous ath12k fix which could use skb_pull_data() directly.

Compile tested only.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d to 20166fd9a4ad15d7eccc63c9dc99680aea6558ef (excl.)
  • affected from d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d to 71690d26c1415e816158b45ee354367244c50d4c (excl.)
  • affected from d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d to f9726f6d97dca94ab14739c8b632301a940a7e8f (excl.)
  • affected from d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d to 2677fc48dd10dc08cdec99c2692d50fe5f48dcbf (excl.)
  • affected from d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d to 9652e7e23137538169f60323300cae3413475685 (excl.)
  • affected from d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d to 72a5e45f606ec454ef556a68ffd92e06b0677f44 (excl.)
  • affected from d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d to 9ddbc95dac167e3f2d0e3859e6ce022ae0184fc1 (excl.)
  • affected from d5c65159f2895379e11ca13f62feabe93278985d to 9ef9dd30058cc9223c72f711dca1a28a5947d0c5 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.6 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.6 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.270 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.221 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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