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CVE-2026-74488

wifi: mwifiex: use the subframe length when parsing A-MSDU TDLS frames PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mwifiex: use the subframe length when parsing A-MSDU TDLS frames mwifiex_11n_dispatch_amsdu_pkt() splits an A-MSDU with ieee80211_amsdu_to_8023s() and walks the resulting subframes. For each subframe it passes the subframe data pointer to mwifiex_process_tdls_action_frame(), but pairs it with skb->len, the length of the A-MSDU parent, instead of rx_skb->len: rx_skb = __skb_dequeue(&list); rx_hdr = (struct rx_packet_hdr *)rx_skb->data; if (ISSUPP_TDLS_ENABLED(priv->adapter->fw_cap_info) && ntohs(rx_hdr->eth803_hdr.h_proto) == ETH_P_TDLS) { mwifiex_process_tdls_action_frame(priv, (u8 *)rx_hdr, skb->len); } The parent is not a valid description of that buffer, and may not be valid memory at all. ieee80211_amsdu_to_8023s() ends with if (!reuse_skb) dev_kfree_skb(skb); and it only sets reuse_skb when the parent is linear, is not a head_frag, and is being consumed as the *last* subframe. So when the parent does not qualify for reuse it has already been freed, and the read of skb->len is a use-after-free. When it is reused, skb->len is the length of the last subframe, applied to every earlier subframe, which over-states the buffer whenever an earlier subframe is shorter. The callee cannot absorb a wrong length, because it derives its own ceiling from the value it is given. Each frame type computes ies_len = len - sizeof(struct ethhdr) - TDLS_*_FIX_LEN; and the element walk is then bounded entirely against that ceiling, for (end = pos + ies_len; pos + 1 < end; pos += 2 + pos[1]) { u8 ie_len = pos[1]; if (pos + 2 + ie_len > end) break; so a too-large len moves end past the end of the subframe and the walk reads and copies beyond it. The A-MSDU layout is chosen by the sender, which makes the difference between the last subframe and a shorter earlier one remotely selectable. Reaching this requires TDLS support in firmware and the TDLS ethertype on the subframe. The other caller, mwifiex_process_rx_packet(), is correct: it passes a pointer and a length that describe the same region of the RX buffer. Pass rx_skb->len, the length of the subframe actually being parsed.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 776f742040ca5eb6242c60f29ac73d5752a5b621 before 707664027bb9307f7268eda403af7c4ccd9b8644; affected 776f742040ca5eb6242c60f29ac73d5752a5b621 before 3b02275833a0d3e6583627995d614fa99bdf364f; affected 776f742040ca5eb6242c60f29ac73d5752a5b621 before a1f0f7dc7eb15754e6931b433edb7beb754c996a; affected 776f742040ca5eb6242c60f29ac73d5752a5b621 before 25e5a3fe4f15e30f74eca42cbf3bcc3a3fbeda79; affected 776f742040ca5eb6242c60f29ac73d5752a5b621 before ece2ebb34247d573142617dfc534a9dc11ba59be; affected 776f742040ca5eb6242c60f29ac73d5752a5b621 before c9dcfe6b8b71369e1d732e2ff622c3696a2f032c; affected 776f742040ca5eb6242c60f29ac73d5752a5b621 before 5a21ab03829cb6d2682c127f22e2b9cd63b4393f; affected 776f742040ca5eb6242c60f29ac73d5752a5b621 before 99a948382af8a225e2d5e54a7052158cd6281cc6
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.5; unaffected 0 before 4.5; unaffected 5.10.265 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.216 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.183 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.151 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.103 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.44 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.8 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through *

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