CVE-2026-68402

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: bound element ID read when checking non-inheritance cfg80211iselementinherited reads the first data octet of the candidate element id = elem-data0 to look it up in an extension non-inheritance list. It does so aft...

CVE-2026-68402

Summary: CVE-2026-68402 affects the Linux kernel Wi‑Fi stack (cfg80211). A flaw in cfg80211_is_element_inherited() may read the first byte of an extension element (elem->data[0]) without confirming the element has data, allowing a crafted Wi‑Fi frame to trigger a one‑octet slab‑out‑of‑bounds r...