Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 10, 2026
CVE-2026-68351
CVE-2026-68351
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: carl9170: bound memcpy length in cmd callback to prevent OOB read
When the firmware sends a command response with a length mismatch, carl9170_cmd_callback() logs the mismatch and calls carl9170_restart() but then falls through to memcpy(ar->readbuf, buffer + 4, len - 4). Since len comes from the firmware and can exceed ar->readlen, this copies more data than the readbuf was allocated for.
Bound the memcpy to min(len - 4, ar->readlen) so that the response is still completed -- avoiding repeated restarts from queued garbage -- while preventing an overread past the response buffer.
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References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cde55b2feff9504d1f993ab80e84e7ccb62791cnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/500c36649f270de05a56591fcc1aaaa36687958envd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9aee949c68dc6dccbc54333537b109c53fe2079fnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb7a38810cf25738176dac32dec7a146b3f959cfnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f74e34e66379e487a09009a4f2d42470051672bdnvd
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