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CVE-2026-64174

wifi: cfg80211: advance loop vars in cfg80211_merge_profile() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: advance loop vars in cfg80211_merge_profile() cfg80211_merge_profile() reassembles a Multi-BSSID non-transmitted BSS profile that has been split across multiple consecutive MBSSID elements. Its while-loop calls cfg80211_get_profile_continuation(ie, ielen, mbssid_elem, sub_elem) but never advances mbssid_elem or sub_elem inside the body. Each iteration therefore searches for a continuation that follows the same fixed pair; the helper returns the same next_mbssid; and the same next_sub bytes are memcpy()'d into merged_ie at a growing offset until the buffer fills. Advance both mbssid_elem and sub_elem to the just-consumed continuation so the next call to cfg80211_get_profile_continuation() searches for a further continuation beyond it (or returns NULL when none exists). A specially-crafted malicious beacon can take advantage of this bug to cause the kernel to spend an excessive amount of time in cfg80211_merge_profile (up to as much as 2ms per beacon received), which could theoretically be abused in some way.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected fe806e4992c9047affd263bcc13b2c047029a726 before 5817e1e5205498a5df66eba2b34e817f4210fd0f; affected fe806e4992c9047affd263bcc13b2c047029a726 before cedbb608494ba1e7a5c6c56b7f1d3fd470094f28; affected fe806e4992c9047affd263bcc13b2c047029a726 before c0bc4c8bd556cbe036a5b9ed333c0aab9aadfcb8; affected fe806e4992c9047affd263bcc13b2c047029a726 before 1ced0f5a851f9cae274545a42a06c459b7fd8881; affected fe806e4992c9047affd263bcc13b2c047029a726 before 67915715fd3874057457363c87c63e18829527df; affected fe806e4992c9047affd263bcc13b2c047029a726 before 6cfae4914439878b8acb35c7e3b40096eeb2ad9c; affected fe806e4992c9047affd263bcc13b2c047029a726 before 1343a480f84b80c1249133a90ef87f8751d65cbb; affected fe806e4992c9047affd263bcc13b2c047029a726 before 7666dbb1bacc4ba522b96740cba7283d243d16e1
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.2; unaffected 0 before 5.2; unaffected 5.10.258 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.209 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.175 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.142 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.92 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.34 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.0.11 through 7.0.*; unaffected 7.1 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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