CVE-2026-68411 (GCVE-0-2026-68411)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:04 – Updated: 2026-08-19 16:35
VLAI
Title
wifi: mac80211_hwsim: clamp virtio RX length before skb_put
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211_hwsim: clamp virtio RX length before skb_put hwsim_virtio_rx_work() passes the virtqueue used-ring length reported by the device straight to skb_put() on a fixed-size receive skb. A backend reporting a length larger than the skb tailroom drives skb_put() past the buffer end and hits skb_over_panic() -- a host-triggerable guest panic (denial of service). Clamp the length to the skb's available room before skb_put(). A conforming device never reports more than the posted buffer size, so valid frames are unaffected; a truncated over-report then fails the length/header checks in hwsim_virtio_handle_cmd() and is dropped, so truncating rather than dropping here cannot be turned into a parsing problem.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1 , < 7f9d678b870fca8eaf1d46fa915cba0b1d5b387a (git)
Affected: 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1 , < 909573d6a9b67354fc0515952574564e7c909c62 (git)
Affected: 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1 , < 5779e4a33e1666ddfeba43e96e29c4a9e5254ff0 (git)
Affected: 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1 , < 82c5a30a66e2a7337d99476c67d6fc1a99c4250e (git)
Affected: 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1 , < fade308845c89f784da8a6780c1e77258488f1b6 (git)
Affected: 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1 , < 6dc76371a9a360c29de00df5b11563102d9d675a (git)
Affected: 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1 , < 99dc05c75acc3c8cde8d89c5371f4b569de5ac62 (git)
Affected: 5d44fe7c9808c56e136e59147bd932f5491520f1 , < 10a2b430f8f06ae14b9590b6f6faa6b588ef0654 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.265 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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