CVE-2026-98236 PUBLISHED

net: wwan: mhi_wwan_mbim: check skb_copy_bits() return value

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

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

net: wwan: mhi_wwan_mbim: check skb_copy_bits() return value

mhi_mbim_rx() ignores the return value of skb_copy_bits() when it copies each datagram out of the NTB. The datagram offset and length come from the DPE, which is only checked to lie within the NTB itself, so a modem can point a datagram outside the received skb. The copy then fails and the freshly allocated skbn is passed to netif_rx() with its uninitialized contents still in place, leaking kernel heap memory into the network stack.

Free the skb and account an error when the copy fails.

Verified in a QEMU guest with a fault injector pointing a DPE outside the received NTB: the copy fails, and the unpatched driver hands the uninitialized skbn to the network stack (observed as "unknown protocol" on bytes that were never written). With this check the failed datagram is dropped and counted as an rx error.

Changes in v2: factor the free-and-count sequence out into mhi_mbim_rx_drop(), shared with the unknown-protocol path, as suggested by Loic Poulain.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from aa730a9905b7b079ef2fffdab7f15dbb842f5c7c to 650af68435eaee783824457d2ef78cc5c03c1e88 (excl.)
  • affected from aa730a9905b7b079ef2fffdab7f15dbb842f5c7c to 350fd3125ee26b5243935fd9e2b4d162ffba430a (excl.)
  • affected from aa730a9905b7b079ef2fffdab7f15dbb842f5c7c to dd136f1fdd1059f3bc25ede3a8def8f0ee151ce7 (excl.)
  • affected from aa730a9905b7b079ef2fffdab7f15dbb842f5c7c to 298659c3677bf622afa9d77549cb4a967f9541e9 (excl.)
  • affected from aa730a9905b7b079ef2fffdab7f15dbb842f5c7c to 02eba5f36d20283f144f75d47f0354a85e4f78f0 (excl.)
  • affected from aa730a9905b7b079ef2fffdab7f15dbb842f5c7c to 7e98216e9da08b79e07a514d2a4f7646f8c9ccb9 (excl.)
  • affected from aa730a9905b7b079ef2fffdab7f15dbb842f5c7c to 31550d585589fde1ae95bf7f7a8188b2d2fdf1c7 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.15 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.15 (excl.)
  • 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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