CVE-2026-98189 PUBLISHED

wifi: wilc1000: fix RX buffer OOB-write in wilc_wlan_handle_isr_ext()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

wifi: wilc1000: fix RX buffer OOB-write in wilc_wlan_handle_isr_ext()

wilc_wlan_handle_isr_ext() takes the RX transfer size from the device-reported interrupt status register (a 15-bit field shifted left by 2, up to 131068 bytes) and reads that many bytes from the device into rx_buffer, which is only WILC_RX_BUFF_SIZE (96K) large. The wrap check only handles the current offset; the size itself is never compared against the buffer, so a bogus SDIO device can make the driver OOB-write rx_buffer by up to ~32K with data it controls.

The oversized transfer also leaves rx_buffer_offset past the end of the buffer, after which the unsigned wrap check stops working and the overflow can repeat.

Drop any transfer whose size exceeds the RX buffer, acknowledging the data interrupt and re-arming the RX engine so the bogus frame is discarded and reception can continue. This also restores the rx_buffer_offset <= WILC_RX_BUFF_SIZE invariant the wrap check relies on.

This is not expected to change driver behavior in most cases: without this check, an oversized transfer would most likely corrupt neighboring kernel memory instead of completing anyway, and the drop path performs the same interrupt acknowledgment and RX engine re-arming as the normal path, so subsequent transfers are received unaffected.

Discovered by Atuin - Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to 3ddb88e237bc1e59fd37b1cf369f3b6c2dedae26 (excl.)
  • affected from c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to 9f6a276ade936a8803f9f3df217c2368944dc321 (excl.)
  • affected from c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to aeb44a456d126d89863230eef0187e77e6441995 (excl.)
  • affected from c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to 612ed9224eae70c53c0c88cb0990e0f9b709280a (excl.)
  • affected from c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to 304a5d72a04a3979a6434088c8d9c5172c2a908e (excl.)
  • affected from c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to 4f86fb6f9dce04f697da85806ad96a932fc2f079 (excl.)
  • affected from c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to 14dcf4c3d74c878175b19d3da5986f83f26b1dd5 (excl.)
  • affected from c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to c1ba7f7f18465e259cf1b4d9c73fc73853d7f790 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.2 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.2 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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