High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 24, 2026· Updated Oct 3, 2026

CVE-2026-93799

Description

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

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: validate sta_id in BA window status notif

BA_WINDOW_STATUS_NOTIFICATION_ID extracts a 5-bit sta_id from the firmware notification and uses it to index fw_id_to_mac_id[] without bounds checking. Validate sta_id before array access to prevent out-of-bounds indexing.

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Affected products

Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy
osv-coords
pkg:linux/kernel
Range: >= 4.6.0, < 6.6.158

Patches

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/6aa77efaea9efea92e3090c35ad348fd759a3cf3nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb08fbbbd5568d33069485ecb0a1657f115a4e9fnvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/e35ae757c6462bfd3437bf58121bb721fe1f790cnvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9938eb95e2ddab4a58d3946a320abcbd60b56a4nvd

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