CVE-2026-63869

wifi: mac80211: limit injected antenna index in ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap

State
Published
Severity
7.6 High
Published
Jul 19, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

wifi: mac80211: limit injected antenna index in ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap

When parsing the radiotap header of an injected frame, ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap() uses the IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_ANTENNA value directly as a shift count:

info->control.antennas |= BIT(*iterator.this_arg);

*iterator.this_arg is an 8-bit value taken straight from the frame supplied by userspace, so BIT() can be asked to shift by up to 255. That is undefined behaviour on the unsigned long and is reported by UBSAN:

UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/mac80211/tx.c:2174:30 shift exponent 235 is too large for 64-bit type 'unsigned long' Call Trace: ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap+0xadb/0x1950 net/mac80211/tx.c:2174 ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit+0xb1f/0x1250 net/mac80211/tx.c:2451 ... packet_sendmsg+0x3eb6/0x50f0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3109

info->control.antennas is a 2-bit bitmap (u8 antennas:2), so only antenna indices 0 and 1 can ever be represented. Ignore any larger value instead of shifting out of bounds.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.6 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:LLinux

Weaknesses

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ef246a1480cc484cd2aeda75737cb0848616ddf3 to before f6d3dc8e8492bf8435e0b23c99472af7bafd6b44Affected
  • ef246a1480cc484cd2aeda75737cb0848616ddf3 to before 9b40c59bab08f2a99abf969cc0bb92fa49de004bAffected
  • ef246a1480cc484cd2aeda75737cb0848616ddf3 to before 033ce021a220913ac02416fcb5ac883a9ff8b6c7Affected
  • ef246a1480cc484cd2aeda75737cb0848616ddf3 to before 6c0cf89f36ac0c0fd8687a4ccdce2efb23a9c663Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.7Affected
  • before 6.7Not affected
  • 6.12.94 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.36 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.13 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

References

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