Bug 2555057 (CVE-2026-98698) - CVE-2026-98698 kernel: wifi: mac80211: handle empty FILS association request payload
Summary: CVE-2026-98698 kernel: wifi: mac80211: handle empty FILS association request ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98698
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:52 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-22 04:56 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:52:01 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: handle empty FILS association request payload

fils_encrypt_assoc_req() accepts a (Re)Association Request frame whose
last element is the FILS Session element.  crypt_len is then zero and
aes_siv_encrypt() is called with an empty plaintext.

kmemdup() returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR for a zero-length allocation, so the
unconditional sg_init_one() puts an invalid page into the scatterlist.
With CONFIG_DEBUG_SG this triggers a kernel BUG in sg_set_buf();
without the debug check the bogus page is handed to the crypto backend.

AES-SIV is defined for empty plaintext and the S2V result is then the
complete output, so handle this case before the CTR step, which has
nothing to encrypt.


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