CVE-2026-98828 PUBLISHED

wifi: ath9k: reject short WMI command responses

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

wifi: ath9k: reject short WMI command responses

ath9k_wmi_rsp_callback() removes the validated WMI header and copies the number of bytes expected by the waiting command into its response buffer. A device response shorter than that expectation can therefore be read beyond the skb payload.

Record -EMSGSIZE for a short response, complete the waiter, and return the stored status from the command path. This also prevents callers from consuming stale response bytes as a successful reply.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to 03ef61d05aa26022327f971b790f07e6bf6e35d6 (excl.)
  • affected from fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to e0c21130c1c7791ba73b19a3a9ea767c8cd43745 (excl.)
  • affected from fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to a3b0137c855a61371d9cf9993b8bcc33c9798202 (excl.)
  • affected from fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to 93ce8ea70451e800601bc9444aa33043de15d67b (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.35 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.35 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.113 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.56 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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