In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: consume only present negotiated TTLM maps ieee80211_tid_to_link_map_size_ok() validates negotiated TTLM elements against the number of link-map entries indicated by link_map_presence. ieee80211_parse_neg_ttlm() must consume the same layout. The parser advanced its cursor for every TID, including TIDs whose presence bit is clear and therefore have no map bytes in the element. A sparse map can then make a later present TID read past the validated element. The bad bytes land in neg_ttlm->{up,down}link[tid] but are gated by valid_links before being applied to driver state, so a peer cannot turn the read into a policy change. Under KUnit + KASAN with an exact-sized element allocation the OOB read is reported as a slab-out-of-bounds; whether the same trigger fires under the production RX path depends on surrounding allocator state. Advance the cursor only when the current TID has a map present.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2becaaeebe230ade1fcd5d0f1cde4d6ee93ec78f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dd9304727c7041df0a599595910bdbe02ad03c5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6e6ccd5bd07155c2add6c74ce1a5e68ad3b95ea Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7d395dc5008168ac5b9c1ac2791e59a6078cca1 Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 2
- StatusAnalyzed → ModifiedNVD modified 2026-10-19 21:17
- First seenCVSS 8.1 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-16 16:19
Affected (CPE criteria) 5
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2becaaeebe230ade1fcd5d0f1cde4d6ee93ec78f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dd9304727c7041df0a599595910bdbe02ad03c5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6e6ccd5bd07155c2add6c74ce1a5e68ad3b95ea Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7d395dc5008168ac5b9c1ac2791e59a6078cca1 Patch