wifi: mt76: mt7996: bound the device EEPROM address before the EFUSE copy
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: bound the device EEPROM address before the EFUSE copy mt7996_mcu_get_eeprom() derives the destination of the EFUSE/EXT block copy from the address reported by the MCU response (event->addr, a device-controlled __le32) and clamps only the copy length, never the destination offset into dev->mt76.eeprom.data. A malicious or malfunctioning device can report an arbitrary address and drive an out-of-bounds write of up to MT7996_EXT_EEPROM_BLOCK_SIZE bytes past eeprom.data. Reject a response whose address would place the copy outside eeprom.data before deriving the destination pointer. Devices that echo the requested in-bounds offset are unaffected.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.6.160, 6.12.112, 6.18.52, 7.2.4, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-80935
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-gmwf-mx64-6gvq
- 2026-10-03 Fix available: Linux/Linux@388f471ca4758f644394b681ce97677a4d0e772c, Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-03 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/Linux@4892be1ef0bbe6db6b13bf46cb79b6706bb5b214, Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-21 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4892be1ef0bbe6db6b13bf46cb79b6706bb5b214
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/388f471ca4758f644394b681ce97677a4d0e772c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e5abb5e2ade0b6fd0e47209711115d47a255176
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6be59da2063d5b3522bfde8aae0487ec095eb384
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13b3c29a782033ce4a230be9e5618032813dbcd4
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Sources
- CVE-2026-80935 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-80935 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-gmwf-mx64-6gvq · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-80935 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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