CVE-2026-93799 (GCVE-0-2026-93799)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-24 16:02 – Updated: 2026-09-25 12:43
VLAI
Title
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: validate sta_id in BA window status notif
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: validate sta_id in BA window status notif BA_WINDOW_STATUS_NOTIFICATION_ID extracts a 5-bit sta_id from the firmware notification and uses it to index fw_id_to_mac_id[] without bounds checking. Validate sta_id before array access to prevent out-of-bounds indexing.
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: 3af512d6aac7eb6420086f124abb4426f5f4b369 , < bb08fbbbd5568d33069485ecb0a1657f115a4e9f (git)
Affected: 3af512d6aac7eb6420086f124abb4426f5f4b369 , < e35ae757c6462bfd3437bf58121bb721fe1f790c (git)
Affected: 3af512d6aac7eb6420086f124abb4426f5f4b369 , < 6aa77efaea9efea92e3090c35ad348fd759a3cf3 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.6 (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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