CVE-2026-98189

wifi: wilc1000: fix RX buffer OOB-write in wilc_wlan_handle_isr_ext()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 6, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 25, 2026

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Description

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

wifi: wilc1000: fix RX buffer OOB-write in wilc_wlan_handle_isr_ext()

wilc_wlan_handle_isr_ext() takes the RX transfer size from the device-reported interrupt status register (a 15-bit field shifted left by 2, up to 131068 bytes) and reads that many bytes from the device into rx_buffer, which is only WILC_RX_BUFF_SIZE (96K) large. The wrap check only handles the current offset; the size itself is never compared against the buffer, so a bogus SDIO device can make the driver OOB-write rx_buffer by up to ~32K with data it controls.

The oversized transfer also leaves rx_buffer_offset past the end of the buffer, after which the unsigned wrap check stops working and the overflow can repeat.

Drop any transfer whose size exceeds the RX buffer, acknowledging the data interrupt and re-arming the RX engine so the bogus frame is discarded and reception can continue. This also restores the rx_buffer_offset <= WILC_RX_BUFF_SIZE invariant the wrap check relies on.

This is not expected to change driver behavior in most cases: without this check, an oversized transfer would most likely corrupt neighboring kernel memory instead of completing anyway, and the drop path performs the same interrupt acknowledgment and RX engine re-arming as the normal path, so subsequent transfers are received unaffected.

Discovered by Atuin - Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to before 3ddb88e237bc1e59fd37b1cf369f3b6c2dedae26Affected
  • c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to before 9f6a276ade936a8803f9f3df217c2368944dc321Affected
  • c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to before aeb44a456d126d89863230eef0187e77e6441995Affected
  • c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to before 612ed9224eae70c53c0c88cb0990e0f9b709280aAffected
  • c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to before 304a5d72a04a3979a6434088c8d9c5172c2a908eAffected
  • c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to before 4f86fb6f9dce04f697da85806ad96a932fc2f079Affected
  • c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to before 14dcf4c3d74c878175b19d3da5986f83f26b1dd5Affected
  • c5c77ba18ea66aa05441c71e38473efb787705a4 to before c1ba7f7f18465e259cf1b4d9c73fc73853d7f790Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.2Affected
  • before 4.2Not affected
  • 5.10.271 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.222 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.189 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.158 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.112 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.54 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.8 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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