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CVE-2026-43172 (GCVE-0-2026-43172)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:27 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:26
VLAI
Title
wifi: iwlwifi: fix 22000 series SMEM parsing
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: fix 22000 series SMEM parsing If the firmware were to report three LMACs (which doesn't exist in hardware) then using "fwrt->smem_cfg.lmac[2]" is an overrun of the array. Reject such and use IWL_FW_CHECK instead of WARN_ON in this function.
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: ebfa7f8ae155c9a0bb2e4038d6b5d8b14881c424 , < 1d49a42717bdc8de77eabeb5b7d3e88d141ffea9 (git)
Affected: ebfa7f8ae155c9a0bb2e4038d6b5d8b14881c424 , < 2b4b1510aaaf5b9fb57327ecffc20c055f61f205 (git)
Affected: ebfa7f8ae155c9a0bb2e4038d6b5d8b14881c424 , < 58192b9ce09b0f0f86e2036683bd542130b91a98 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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