CVE-2026-72003

wifi: brcmfmac: cyw: fix heap overflow on a short auth frame

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

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

wifi: brcmfmac: cyw: fix heap overflow on a short auth frame

brcmf_notify_auth_frame_rx() takes the frame length from the firmware event and copies the frame body with the management header offset subtracted:

u32 mgmt_frame_len = e->datalen - sizeof(struct brcmf_rx_mgmt_data); ... memcpy(&mgmt_frame->u, frame, mgmt_frame_len - offsetof(struct ieee80211_mgmt, u));

The only length check is e->datalen >= sizeof(*rxframe), so mgmt_frame_len can be anything from 0 up. offsetof(struct ieee80211_mgmt, u) is 24. When mgmt_frame_len is below that, the subtraction wraps as an unsigned value to a huge length. The memcpy then runs far past the kzalloc'd buffer. A malicious or malfunctioning AP can make the frame short during the external SAE auth exchange, so this is a remotely triggered heap overflow.

Reject frames shorter than the management header offset before the copy.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 66f909308a7c05082919ff214a0bbe2a76aa0283 to before 55b26abb1fa1ec406b3ad11b43c49c7624257565Affected
  • 66f909308a7c05082919ff214a0bbe2a76aa0283 to before 185bb156c427d0f865d344a6d0eaa02c6d05cc57Affected
  • 66f909308a7c05082919ff214a0bbe2a76aa0283 to before 240c8d2c717b3f8153e7e877b22a82518d78dbdcAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.16Affected
  • before 6.16Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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