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GHSA-2J8J-JV7C-WM9J

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-19 18:31 – Updated: 2026-07-20 15:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_epcs

IEEE80211_MLE_STA_EPCS_CONTROL_LINK_ID is 0x000f, so link_id extracted from a PRIO_ACCESS ML element PER_STA_PROFILE subelement can be 0..15. sdata->link[] has IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS (15) entries (indices 0..14), making index 15 out-of-bounds.

A connected WiFi 7 AP can trigger this by sending an EPCS Enable Response action frame with a PER_STA_PROFILE subelement where link_id = 15. The unsolicited-notification path (dialog_token = 0) is reachable any time EPCS is already enabled, without any prior client request.

sdata->link[15] reads into the first word of sdata->activate_links_work (a wiphy_work whose embedded list_head is non-NULL after INIT_LIST_HEAD), so the NULL check on the result does not catch the invalid access. The garbage pointer is then passed to ieee80211_sta_wmm_params(), which dereferences link->sdata and crashes the kernel.

The same class of bug was fixed for ieee80211_ml_reconfiguration() by commit 162d331d833d ("wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_reconfiguration").

Severity

8.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2026-64030 (GCVE-0-2026-64030)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 15:39 – Updated: 2026-07-20 13:42

Title

wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_epcs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_epcs IEEE80211_MLE_STA_EPCS_CONTROL_LINK_ID is 0x000f, so link_id extracted from a PRIO_ACCESS ML element PER_STA_PROFILE subelement can be 0..15. sdata->link[] has IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS (15) entries (indices 0..14), making index 15 out-of-bounds. A connected WiFi 7 AP can trigger this by sending an EPCS Enable Response action frame with a PER_STA_PROFILE subelement where link_id = 15. The unsolicited-notification path (dialog_token = 0) is reachable any time EPCS is already enabled, without any prior client request. sdata->link[15] reads into the first word of sdata->activate_links_work (a wiphy_work whose embedded list_head is non-NULL after INIT_LIST_HEAD), so the NULL check on the result does not catch the invalid access. The garbage pointer is then passed to ieee80211_sta_wmm_params(), which dereferences link->sdata and crashes the kernel. The same class of bug was fixed for ieee80211_ml_reconfiguration() by commit 162d331d833d ("wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_reconfiguration").

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d8379834800c3060…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/863f1f02a3bd70dbd…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f718506edd2d9c6a3…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: de86c5f60839dc0d771711a848b4f55ad3f90844 , < 2d8379834800c30602f24c71ab7c40f5fe84d200 (git) Affected: de86c5f60839dc0d771711a848b4f55ad3f90844 , < 863f1f02a3bd70dbd857b8ac4070292fde8cb4e2 (git) Affected: de86c5f60839dc0d771711a848b4f55ad3f90844 , < f718506edd2d9c6a308ded9d13c632bf7b7d5a2c (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.34 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.11 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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