Bug 2513238 (CVE-2026-68373) - CVE-2026-68373 kernel: Linux kernel: Out-of-bounds read in wifi driver due to length underflow
Summary: CVE-2026-68373 kernel: Linux kernel: Out-of-bounds read in wifi driver due to...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-68373
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-10 12:26 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-13 11:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:26:28 UTC
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.


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