CVE-2026-90399
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath12k: fix stride mismatch in mac_phy_caps_parse()
Currently, in ath12k_wmi_mac_phy_caps_parse(), kzalloc() sizes the mac_phy_caps buffer as tot_phy_id * len, where len is clamped to min(firmware_len, sizeof(struct ath12k_wmi_mac_phy_caps_params)). 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 ath12k_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.
Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.1.c7-00108-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ_UPSTREAM-3
Affected products
3- osv-coords2 versions
>= 6.3.0, < 6.6.160+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 6.3.0, < 6.6.160
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.8-1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/26f8f87f0a556e7984366c64cebc16d49e15d22fnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c6eb712a91fa079be6f9f1419c96e0ad2227081nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/79c6f4f7d16eea1bcb8bc5c8fd6ec04a01b0614fnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9a5d12cbdeb860306f8d47c92caee0ea6ee0e0anvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3355e0fdbbf531ca8b82a6a3feb80a1b7306a8bnvd
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