CVE-2026-74336 (GCVE-0-2026-74336)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:58 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:17
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Title
wifi: mac80211: bound S1G TIM PVB walk to the TIM element
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: bound S1G TIM PVB walk to the TIM element ieee80211_s1g_check_tim() parses the S1G Partial Virtual Bitmap (PVB) of a received TIM element. The TIM is handed in as the element payload: ieee802_11_parse_elems_full() stores elems->tim = elem->data and elems->tim_len = elem->datalen (net/mac80211/parse.c), so the valid bytes are [tim, tim + tim_len). When walking the encoded blocks the function passes the walker an end sentinel of (const u8 *)tim + tim_len + 2, i.e. two bytes past the end of the element. ieee80211_s1g_find_target_block() loops while (ptr + 1 <= end) and dereferences ptr (and the per-mode ieee80211_s1g_len_*() helpers read *ptr), so it can read up to two bytes beyond the TIM element -- an out-of-bounds read of adjacent skb/heap data when the TIM is the last element in the frame. The +2 appears to account for the element id/len header, but tim already points past that header at the element payload, so the addend is wrong. Pass the correct element end, (const u8 *)tim + tim_len.
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e0c47c6229c25b54440fe1f84a0ff533942290b1 , < 3abc13ec3ac28c343ad7e7b7496e807b924f0edd (git)
Affected: e0c47c6229c25b54440fe1f84a0ff533942290b1 , < b224d18b1e5d1cddfc67f63f41d80023b2ec8889 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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