CVE-2026-93790 (GCVE-0-2026-93790)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-24 16:02 – Updated: 2026-09-25 12:42
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Title
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix out-of-bounds tid_data access in BA notif
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix out-of-bounds tid_data access in BA notif mvmsta->tid_data was indexed by the TFD loop counter 'i' instead of the actual TID value 'tid'. This writes lq_color into a random tid_data slot unrelated to the BA entry. Since multi-TID blockack is not really in use, 'i' was always 0 and no harm was done. Add a out-of-bound check before accessing the array.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 41fd2fec56db2564f02532ed7244e1f69193b4ad , < c48b741277b01b2c3b4ecccedc72fc575b71dc04 (git)
Affected: 41fd2fec56db2564f02532ed7244e1f69193b4ad , < e8ac5e91b1296f65c3d119fac3fa917ff458f811 (git)
Affected: 41fd2fec56db2564f02532ed7244e1f69193b4ad , < 94d3982806c7f194b23484befde12934dda23064 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.111 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.53 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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