CVE-2026-90398

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90398
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90398.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-90398
Downstream
Published
2026-09-17T16:09:29Z
Modified
2026-09-19T03:47:29Z
Severity
  • 8.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
wifi: ath11k: fix stride mismatch in mac_phy_caps_parse()
Details

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

wifi: ath11k: fix stride mismatch in mac_phy_caps_parse()

Currently, in ath11k_wmi_tlv_mac_phy_caps_parse(), kcalloc() sizes the mac_phy_caps buffer as tot_phy_id * len, where len is clamped to min(firmware_len, sizeof(struct wmi_mac_phy_capabilities)). The subsequent memcpy() destination advances by sizeof(full struct) per slot via C pointer arithmetic, not by the clamped len. When firmware sends short TLVs, the second and later slots are written past the end of the allocation.

The reader in ath11k_pull_mac_phy_cap_svc_ready_ext() also indexes the buffer with full-struct pointer arithmetic, so the allocation must match that stride.

Fix by using kzalloc_objs(), which derives the element size from the pointer type, making allocation size and pointer stride provably consistent regardless of what len the firmware provides.

Compile tested only.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/90xxx/CVE-2026-90398.json"
}
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
5b90fc760db5a969ed26d70f8e62c91915f012bd
Fixed
bbb3b3334a9ed850c5b332eedea107796e691237
Fixed
75185e2b214e842b7e0af29e5d1fef155662b8b1
Fixed
acff2713c3212ade15051e7b421f15c89927e70f
Fixed
7a246c72132eb943b5844ba79dad597b47429dba

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90398.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.6.0
Fixed
6.12.110
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.52
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90398.json"