CVE-2026-12999

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-12999
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-12999.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-12999
Aliases
  • GHSA-8w97-ghfm-5wjp
Published
2026-08-22T20:35:40Z
Modified
2026-08-28T14:32:57Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Infineon Airoc Wi-Fi driver leaks TX buffers on send failure, leading to permanent pool exhaustion
Details

The Infineon Airoc Wi-Fi driver's transmit callback airoc_mgmt_send() in drivers/wifi/infineon/airoc_wifi.c allocates a net_buf from the fixed airoc_pool for every outbound packet. When whd_network_send_ethernet_data() returns a synchronous failure, the underlying WHD library does not take ownership of the buffer, but the pre-fix driver returned -EIO without releasing it. Each failed transmit therefore permanently leaks one buffer from the pool.

airoc_pool is small and fixed (AIROC_WIFI_TX_PACKET_POOL_COUNT + AIROC_WIFI_RX_PACKET_POOL_COUNT, default 20 buffers) and is shared by WHD's whd_host_buffer_get callback for both transmit and receive. Once enough send failures have leaked the pool dry, airoc_wifi_host_buffer_get() returns WHD_BUFFER_ALLOC_FAIL for all subsequent allocations, so both transmit and the WHD-driven receive path fail and Wi-Fi connectivity is lost until the device is rebooted.

The leak occurs only on the transmit error path. A Wi-Fi-adjacent attacker can influence the conditions that cause synchronous send failures (for example by deauthenticating/disassociating the station while the local stack continues to attempt transmits), and ordinary transient failures over the device's lifetime accumulate toward the same state. Reliable on-demand triggering is of high complexity and the impact is availability-only, but the resulting denial of service is permanent and non-recoverable without a reboot.

The fix releases the buffer with airoc_wifi_buffer_release() on the failure branch, returning it to the pool. The commit also removes a redundant k_sem_give() in airoc_mgmt_disconnect(); because data->sema_common is a binary semaphore (limit 1) the duplicate give merely saturated at 1 and had no security impact.

Database specific 
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References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Events
Introduced
468eb56cf242eedba62006ee758700ee6148763f
Fixed
4e6f624292ed153a762e98c7a297998c8d0b52c4
Database specific
Show details 
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Affected versions

v3.*
v3.6.0
v3.7.0
v3.7.0-rc1
v3.7.0-rc2
v3.7.0-rc3
v4.*
v4.0.0
v4.0.0-rc1
v4.0.0-rc2
v4.0.0-rc3
v4.1.0
v4.1.0-rc1
v4.1.0-rc2
v4.1.0-rc3
v4.2.0
v4.2.0-rc1
v4.2.0-rc2
v4.2.0-rc3
v4.3.0
v4.3.0-rc1
v4.3.0-rc2
v4.3.0-rc3
v4.4.0
v4.4.0-rc1
v4.4.0-rc2
v4.4.0-rc3

Database specific

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