CVE-2026-89524EPSS p18.0%
CVE-2026-89524CVE-2026-89524
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath6kl: clamp assoc request/response lengths before subtracting IE offsets
ath6kl_cfg80211_connect_event() subtracts fixed IE offsets from
assoc_req_len (-= 4) and assoc_resp_len (-= 6), both u8, with no lower
bound. The aggregate check recently added to ath6kl_wmi_connect_event_rx()
bounds the declared lengths from above (their sum must fit the received
event), but an assoc request/response shorter than its fixed offset still
underflows here: the u8 wraps to ~250, and cfg80211_connect_result() /
cfg80211_roamed() then treat that wrapped value as the IE length and copy
that many bytes out of the small assoc_info buffer to user space via
nl80211, disclosing adjacent slab memory.
Clamp both lengths to their offsets before subtracting.
Found by 0sec (https://0sec.ai) using automated source analysis; the
missing lower bound is evident from source. Compile-tested.
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 | 0.27% probability of exploitation · percentile 18.0% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-14 |