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CVE-2026-97518

wifi: cfg80211: reject duplicate wiphy cipher suite entries

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KEV checked 14/11/2026, 21:25:33 UTC

Severity

unknown

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Known exploitation

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Public exploit

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Remediation

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What this means

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

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Attack conditions

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Affected versions

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Linux

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affected

2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196 → before 539d7f795bf0c41fb533c99e6010cdfaf5a1b6a6

git versions

2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196 → before d12e92e72db914e1ea777c6f246f6be75985438e

git versions

2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196 → before 1305f8b925fe92edf5fec183588dfc7db719180b

git versions

2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196 → before 4cbb2360f4d8c29e67bc7a8bf6ba0ae096583923

git versions

2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196 → before 7187d145d9042b037e4f10538f70cf95e380219f

git versions

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unknown

Other versions: unaffected

Linux · Linux

Linux

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affected

2.6.32

unaffected

0 → before 2.6.32

semver versions

6.1.191 → through 6.1.*

semver versions

6.6.160 → through 6.6.*

semver versions

6.12.111 → through 6.12.*

semver versions

6.18.53 → through 6.18.*

semver versions

7.2 → through *

original_commit_for_fix versions

unknown

Other versions: affected

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Public exploit evidence

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Original source description

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

wifi: cfg80211: reject duplicate wiphy cipher suite entries

Duplicate entries in wiphy->cipher_suites do not describe any additional capability, but cfg80211 currently accepts them and leaves individual consumers to deal with them.

One such consumer is the WEXT compatibility code, which appends a WEP key length for each WEP cipher entry it sees. Repeated WEP entries can therefore overflow the fixed iw_range::encoding_size array returned by SIOCGIWRANGE.

Reject duplicate cipher suite entries in wiphy_register() instead. This keeps the cipher suite invariant in one place and makes malformed wiphy descriptions fail early with -EINVAL, rather than relying on a single cfg80211 user to handle duplicates correctly.

References

5 sources
git.kernel.org/stable/c/539d7f795bf0c41fb533c99e6010cdfaf5a1b6a6
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git.kernel.org/stable/c/d12e92e72db914e1ea777c6f246f6be75985438e
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git.kernel.org/stable/c/1305f8b925fe92edf5fec183588dfc7db719180b
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git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cbb2360f4d8c29e67bc7a8bf6ba0ae096583923
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git.kernel.org/stable/c/7187d145d9042b037e4f10538f70cf95e380219f
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Environment requirements

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Linux · platform conditions

Any condition may hold

Vulnerable product

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

From (inclusive): 2.6.32

Before: 6.1.191

Vulnerable product

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

From (inclusive): 2.6.32

Before: 6.6.160

Vulnerable product

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

From (inclusive): 2.6.32

Before: 6.12.111

Vulnerable product

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

From (inclusive): 2.6.32

Before: 6.18.53

Vulnerable product

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

From (inclusive): 2.6.32

Before: 7.2

Applicability preview
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Linux

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2026-10-30

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