# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68197"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:00:15.750Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:31:16.085Z"
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-2026-68197"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68197.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68197"
title: "wifi: mwifiex: fix NULL dereference when the AP has HT-cap but no HT-oper"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mwifiex: fix NULL dereference when the AP has HT-cap but no HT-oper\n\nmwifiex_tdls_add_ht_oper() gates its follow-the-AP-bandwidth path on\nbss_desc-\u003ebcn_ht_cap being present, but then dereferences a different\npointer, bss_desc-\u003ebcn_ht_oper:\n\n\tif (ISSUPP_CHANWIDTH40(priv-\u003eadapter-\u003ehw_dot_11n_dev_cap) &&\n\t    bss_desc-\u003ebcn_ht_cap &&\n\t    ISALLOWED_CHANWIDTH40(bss_desc-\u003ebcn_ht_oper-\u003eht_param))\n\nbcn_ht_cap and bcn_ht_oper are populated independently while parsing the\nassociated AP's beacon in mwifiex_update_bss_desc_with_ie(): an AP that\nadvertises an HT Capabilities element but no HT Operation element leaves\nbcn_ht_cap non-NULL and bcn_ht_oper NULL. Setting up a TDLS link to a\npeer while associated to such an AP then dereferences the NULL\nbcn_ht_oper and crashes the kernel. Every other bcn_ht_oper user in the\ndriver NULL-checks it first.\n\nGuard on the pointer that is actually dereferenced.\n\nFound by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai)."
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