CVE-2026-63869

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63869
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-63869.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-63869
Downstream
Published
2026-07-19T14:18:38.426Z
Modified
2026-07-22T05:30:13.112506835Z
Severity
  • 7.6 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
wifi: mac80211: limit injected antenna index in ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap
Details

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

wifi: mac80211: limit injected antenna index in ieee80211parsetx_radiotap

When parsing the radiotap header of an injected frame, ieee80211parsetxradiotap() uses the IEEE80211RADIOTAP_ANTENNA value directly as a shift count:

info->control.antennas |= BIT(*iterator.this_arg);

*iterator.this_arg is an 8-bit value taken straight from the frame supplied by userspace, so BIT() can be asked to shift by up to 255. That is undefined behaviour on the unsigned long and is reported by UBSAN:

UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/mac80211/tx.c:2174:30 shift exponent 235 is too large for 64-bit type 'unsigned long' Call Trace: ieee80211parsetxradiotap+0xadb/0x1950 net/mac80211/tx.c:2174 ieee80211monitorstartxmit+0xb1f/0x1250 net/mac80211/tx.c:2451 ... packetsendmsg+0x3eb6/0x50f0 net/packet/afpacket.c:3109

info->control.antennas is a 2-bit bitmap (u8 antennas:2), so only antenna indices 0 and 1 can ever be represented. Ignore any larger value instead of shifting out of bounds.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/63xxx/CVE-2026-63869.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
ef246a1480cc484cd2aeda75737cb0848616ddf3
Fixed
f6d3dc8e8492bf8435e0b23c99472af7bafd6b44
Fixed
9b40c59bab08f2a99abf969cc0bb92fa49de004b
Fixed
033ce021a220913ac02416fcb5ac883a9ff8b6c7
Fixed
6c0cf89f36ac0c0fd8687a4ccdce2efb23a9c663

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-63869.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.94
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.36
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.0.13

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-63869.json"