CVE-2026-68373EPSS p34.0%
CVE-2026-68373CVE-2026-68373
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: at76c50x-usb: avoid length underflow in at76_guess_freq()
at76_guess_freq() checks only that the received frame is at least a bare
802.11 header (24 bytes) before subtracting the fixed management-body
offset:
len -= el_off;
For both beacon and probe response frames, el_off is 36. If the frame is
shorter than el_off, subtracting it causes the calculated IE length to
wrap. The length is eventually passed to cfg80211_find_elem_match() as a
very large unsigned value, so the element walk runs beyond the RX skb.
This path is reached from at76_rx_tasklet() while scanning. If the device
delivers a truncated beacon or probe response, the oversized IE length
causes an out-of-bounds read during scanning.
Skip the IE lookup if the frame does not reach the variable elements,
before subtracting el_off.
Scoring
| CVSS | 8.1 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.42% probability of exploitation · percentile 34.0% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-08-19 |