CVE-2026-92498

wifi: ath6kl: avoid buffer overreads in WMI event handlers

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 17, 2026
Updated: Oct 19, 2026
Reserved: Sep 16, 2026

Description

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

wifi: ath6kl: avoid buffer overreads in WMI event handlers

The following WMI event handlers currently read from the event buffer without first verifying that the message was large enough to hold the expected event: ath6kl_wmi_scan_complete_rx() ath6kl_wmi_addba_req_event_rx() ath6kl_wmi_delba_req_event_rx()

Add length checks to prevent overread.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before 144fe0b0fa8f311ebe29ef16c8239bf6a24addc0Affected bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before a2de3fb4f83a525e95a86a683f0ff105b9b5785bAffected bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before d1d2ac5f5b1609a05c455d0aed12904b0985530dAffected bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before ea2a77682f9f984bc9a45a00b7d1aa198503c2feAffected bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before 41159d392c3adedc093a8d80521037b72350f606Affected bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before abda58f4529d7eebb6ef82e2d266dabc17507faaAffected bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before 2f3635213ecf52ff943f01645f895cb39db8f0dcAffected bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before f57314aade9d74d30f3360ec5ef85a83654748beAffected
LinuxLinux	3.2Affected before 3.2Not affected 5.10.270 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.221 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.188 through 6.1.Not affected 6.6.157 through 6.6.Not affected 6.12.110 through 6.12.Not affected 6.18.52 through 6.18.Not affected 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected 7.3 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before 144fe0b0fa8f311ebe29ef16c8239bf6a24addc0Affected
bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before a2de3fb4f83a525e95a86a683f0ff105b9b5785bAffected
bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before d1d2ac5f5b1609a05c455d0aed12904b0985530dAffected
bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before ea2a77682f9f984bc9a45a00b7d1aa198503c2feAffected
bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before 41159d392c3adedc093a8d80521037b72350f606Affected
bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before abda58f4529d7eebb6ef82e2d266dabc17507faaAffected
bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before 2f3635213ecf52ff943f01645f895cb39db8f0dcAffected
bdcd81707973cf8aa9305337166f8ee842a050d4 to before f57314aade9d74d30f3360ec5ef85a83654748beAffected

LinuxLinux

3.2Affected
before 3.2Not affected
5.10.270 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.221 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.188 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not affected
6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
7.3 and laterNot affected

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