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CVE-2026-97518: 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 cfg

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Priority 45/100

NIST National Vulnerability Database ha pubblicato CVE-2026-97518. La rilevanza va confermata rispetto alle tecnologie effettivamente in uso.

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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.

Source
NIST National Vulnerability Database
Publishing entity
NIST National Vulnerability Database
Entity type
National authority
Area
North America · US
Original language
en · translation in preparation
Publication
24/09/2026 19:17
CVE
CVE-2026-97518
Stated country
US
Technical scope

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