CVE-2026-92498 PUBLISHED

wifi: ath6kl: avoid buffer overreads in WMI event handlers

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: ath6kl: avoid buffer overreads in WMI event handlers

The following WMI event handlers currently read from the event buffer without first verifying that the message was large enough to hold the expected event: ath6kl_wmi_scan_complete_rx() ath6kl_wmi_addba_req_event_rx() ath6kl_wmi_delba_req_event_rx()

Add length checks to prevent overread.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to 144fe0b0fa8f311ebe29ef16c8239bf6a24addc0 (excl.)
  • affected from bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to a2de3fb4f83a525e95a86a683f0ff105b9b5785b (excl.)
  • affected from bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to d1d2ac5f5b1609a05c455d0aed12904b0985530d (excl.)
  • affected from bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to ea2a77682f9f984bc9a45a00b7d1aa198503c2fe (excl.)
  • affected from bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to 41159d392c3adedc093a8d80521037b72350f606 (excl.)
  • affected from bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to abda58f4529d7eebb6ef82e2d266dabc17507faa (excl.)
  • affected from bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to 2f3635213ecf52ff943f01645f895cb39db8f0dc (excl.)
  • affected from bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to f57314aade9d74d30f3360ec5ef85a83654748be (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.2 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.2 (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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