CVE-2026-98186
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mwifiex: bound the pairwise-cipher OUI walk to the IE length mwifiex_search_oui_in_ie() reads a pairwise-cipher (PTK) count from a beacon/probe-response RSN or WPA information element and then walks that many 4-byte OUIs, comparing each with memcmp(). The count comes straight from the (attacker-supplied) IE and is never checked against the element's own length, and the callers admit the element on element_id alone (has_ieee_hdr() / has_vendor_hdr(), no length check). A crafted RSN/WPA IE with a large pairwise count therefore makes the walk read up to 255 * 4 bytes past the element -- an out-of-bounds read of the kmemdup()'d beacon buffer, reachable from any AP whose beacon/probe response is processed during scan-result parsing. Pass the number of IE bytes available at the OUI list and bound the walk to the element. Keep the length signed and reject a negative value before any unsigned arithmetic, so a small or zero IE length cannot underflow to a large size_t and defeat the bound. Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).
Severity
Not scored
CVSS score
Not available
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Published
2026-10-06 09:18:03.540000
Last modified
2026-10-19 10:18:18.940000
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"published": "2026-10-06T09:18:03.540",
"lastModified": "2026-10-19T10:18:18.940",
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mwifiex: bound the pairwise-cipher OUI walk to the IE length\n\nmwifiex_search_oui_in_ie() reads a pairwise-cipher (PTK) count from a\nbeacon/probe-response RSN or WPA information element and then walks that\nmany 4-byte OUIs, comparing each with memcmp(). The count comes straight\nfrom the (attacker-supplied) IE and is never checked against the\nelement's own length, and the callers admit the element on element_id\nalone (has_ieee_hdr() / has_vendor_hdr(), no length check). A crafted\nRSN/WPA IE with a large pairwise count therefore makes the walk read up\nto 255 * 4 bytes past the element -- an out-of-bounds read of the\nkmemdup()'d beacon buffer, reachable from any AP whose beacon/probe\nresponse is processed during scan-result parsing.\n\nPass the number of IE bytes available at the OUI list and bound the walk\nto the element. Keep the length signed and reject a negative value\nbefore any unsigned arithmetic, so a small or zero IE length cannot\nunderflow to a large size_t and defeat the bound.\n\nFound by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai)."
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