Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 11, 2026

CVE-2026-80933

Description

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

wifi: mt76: mt7996: validate default EEPROM firmware size

The default EEPROM firmware is parsed and copied as a full EEPROM without checking its length. A truncated file can make the driver read beyond the firmware buffer during variant validation or the fallback copy.

Reject files shorter than MT7996_EEPROM_SIZE before parsing or copying the firmware.

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Affected products

Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy

Patches

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/03b81f015dbb29807ce1ec6d45537d658abdac69nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/653c6e289b13cc6942f3e8f8e3c568e70fa42d1fnvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/7074ec3769820302f1ccf8794a40a6582153b820nvd

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