{
  "schema_version": "1.6.1",
  "id": "RPI-CVE-2026-98348",
  "modified": "2026-10-09T11:39:44Z",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-98348"
  ],
  "published": "2026-10-06T08:47:10Z",
  "summary": "wifi: libipw: reject too-short association responses",
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: libipw: reject too-short association responses\n\nlibipw_handle_assoc_resp() reads the capability, status and aid fields\nof the 30-byte association response prefix and then computes the\ninformation element length as\n\n\tstats->len - sizeof(*frame)\n\nstats->len is a u16 and sizeof() has type size_t, so the subtraction is\nevaluated as size_t and wraps instead of going negative.  Truncating\nthat to the u16 length parameter of libipw_parse_info_param() turns a\nframe shorter than the fixed fields into a length near 64 KiB, and the\nparser then reads past the receive buffer.\n\nBoth the ipw2100 and ipw2200 management receive paths reach this\nfunction having established only that the frame carries the generic\n24-byte three-address header.\n\nReject the frame before any fixed field is touched.\n\nFound by an AI-assisted review of length arithmetic in management frame\nparsers.  Verified with a KUnit case under Generic KASAN on arm64 under\nQEMU; I do not have the hardware, so it is not tested on a real device.",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H"
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Raspberry Pi OS:12",
        "name": "linux"
      },
      "versions": [
        "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
      ],
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
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            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-2712",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
          },
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            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v6",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
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            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v7",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
          },
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            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v7l",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
          },
          {
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            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
          }
        ]
      },
      "database_specific": {
        "per_version": {
          "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4": {
            "linux_commit": "655fc658a15ae7a6f37103754adb39ba52a9a14e",
            "upstream_version": "6.1.47",
            "assessment": "commit ancestry (strak rule)",
            "upstream_fixed": "6.1.189",
            "compiled_filter": false
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98348"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/766268b429ae26d8ca599031fa962b0fe4673120"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d70bdb84cf1782039384c1ffa7a18b0303c286a7"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/400b89217058fac672134a0d4092c8493dadb8ad"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46aa75291056b6dc5faaf956dffdb3e9662477b0"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3025ecdb2057f866c09e059fc1466e81d6f243e"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14cb425ba1f3a5d849e3bbc3d02d84e0ae195dbb"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af1b69be19c34e28c0ae54bee954b58cd076969a"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adb7118b7d2cfd7e8213c17d7d2829f353017754"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "source": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git",
    "upstream_modified": "2026-10-07T06:50:27Z",
    "severity": {
      "source": "kernel CNA",
      "cvss_v3_score": 7.1,
      "cvss_v3_severity": "High",
      "scenario": "AV:A - The malformed input is an 802.11 Association Response management frame received over the air. ipw2100 (isr_rx path) and ipw2200 (ipw_handle_mgmt_packet) send it through libipw_rx_mgt() into libipw_handle_assoc_resp(). The attacker must be within WiFi radio range.\nAC:L - The attacker only has to send an ASSOC_RESP frame of 24-29 bytes. The drivers check only for the 24-byte header, so stats->len - sizeof(*frame) (30) wraps to about 64K in the u16 length passed to libipw_parse_info_param(). No race or special state is involved.\nPR:N - libipw_rx_mgt() processes management frames before any 802.11 authentication or key exchange. An unauthenticated nearby transmitter can inject the frame.\nUI:N - The frame is processed in the receive path as soon as the interface is up. The victim does nothing.\nS:U - The out-of-bounds read stays inside the host kernel's own memory and crosses no virtualization or IOMMU boundary.\nC:L - libipw_parse_info_param() walks up to about 64KB of memory past the receive buffer. Those bytes only fill a local libipw_network on the stack, and through the QoS IE path the qos_data that goes to firmware. Nothing is returned to the attacker, so the disclosure is limited and indirect.\nI:N - The bug is read-only. Every copy from the parsed IEs is bounded (min() on ssid/rates, an exact-size check in libipw_read_qos_param_element) and lands in the fixed-size local network struct, so nothing is written out of bounds.\nA:H - Iterating about 64KB of information elements past a few-KB skb/DMA receive buffer can hit unmapped pages (or KASAN/KFENCE) and oops the kernel. Any station in range can resend the short frame repeatedly."
    }
  }
}