CVE-2026-98190 PUBLISHED

wifi: wilc1000: fix out-of-bounds read in P2P public action frames

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 out-of-bounds read in P2P public action frames

wilc_wfi_p2p_rx() and mgmt_tx() start parsing a frame once ieee80211_is_public_action() returns true. That helper only verifies the frame is long enough for the action category field, that is offsetofend(struct ieee80211_mgmt, u.action.category), 25 bytes. Both functions then read the P2P public action header up to oui_subtype at offset 30 and pass "size - ie_offset" to cfg80211_find_vendor_ie(), where ie_offset is offsetof(struct ieee80211_mgmt, u) + sizeof(*d), i.e. 32.

A public action frame of 25 to 31 bytes passes the check but is shorter than that 32 byte header, so oui_subtype can be read out of bounds, and because the length is unsigned, "size - ie_offset" underflows to a value close to 4 GiB. cfg80211_find_vendor_ie() takes an unsigned int length, so even the size_t subtraction in mgmt_tx() is truncated to the same value. It then walks far past the buffer searching for a vendor element until it reaches unmapped memory.

In the receive path the frame arrives over the air and needs no association, so a nearby unauthenticated device can crash the host while it is in P2P listen. Reject frames shorter than the P2P public action header in both paths before dereferencing it.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4fb8b5aa2a1126783ae00bae544d6f3c519408ef to e98ad9f4c59f2e836f8d971b57763a4277680422 (excl.)
  • affected from 4fb8b5aa2a1126783ae00bae544d6f3c519408ef to f0c46f8111a479b97b8ab17747c528cade6257f1 (excl.)
  • affected from 4fb8b5aa2a1126783ae00bae544d6f3c519408ef to a5b827dad8a3037cef04d0240d1c2acb1557101e (excl.)
  • affected from 4fb8b5aa2a1126783ae00bae544d6f3c519408ef to 491df93b10d76aebaf6aa4bb05a6ba897f4fccfb (excl.)
  • affected from 4fb8b5aa2a1126783ae00bae544d6f3c519408ef to cc2ee642ebeac8699b671ddb6d5955a785e5ff43 (excl.)
  • affected from 4fb8b5aa2a1126783ae00bae544d6f3c519408ef to 68b786691ce24c5c94e28811db243e573c50f9c1 (excl.)
  • affected from 4fb8b5aa2a1126783ae00bae544d6f3c519408ef to 6fbe76eb2796d2aee45cc6a2dd16e85d3cc96304 (excl.)
  • affected from 4fb8b5aa2a1126783ae00bae544d6f3c519408ef to ba6cb7c0868a412c2eb68e8efd5aa38bfb258a14 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.7 (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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