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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68196"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:00:14.686Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:31:13.791Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68196"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68196.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68196"
title: "wifi: wilc1000: validate assoc response length before subtracting header"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: wilc1000: validate assoc response length before subtracting header\n\nwilc_parse_assoc_resp_info() computes the trailing IE length as\n\n\ties_len = buffer_len - sizeof(*res);\n\nwithout first checking that buffer_len is at least sizeof(struct\nwilc_assoc_resp) (6 bytes). buffer_len is the length reported for a\nreceived association response (host_int_parse_assoc_resp_info() passes\nhif_drv-\u003eassoc_resp / assoc_resp_info_len straight in) and must be\nvalidated before the driver accesses the fixed header.\n\nFor a frame shorter than the 6-byte fixed header, the subtraction wraps.\nFor a four-byte response the result is truncated to a u16 ies_len of\n65534, so kmemdup() then attempts to copy 65534 bytes starting at\nbuffer + sizeof(*res), beyond the valid association-response data\n(CWE-125). A response shorter than four bytes can also cause an\nout-of-bounds read of res-\u003estatus_code at offsets 2 and 3.\n\nReject frames too short to hold the fixed header before touching the\nheader or computing ies_len. Also set the connection status to a failure\non this path: the caller falls through to a\n\"conn_info-\u003estatus == WLAN_STATUS_SUCCESS\" check after the parser\nreturns, so leaving the status untouched could let a malformed short\nresponse be treated as a successful association."
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