# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68349"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:03:26.166Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:33:47.832Z"
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-2026-68349"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68349.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68349"
title: "wifi: carl9170: fix buffer overflow in rx_stream failover path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: carl9170: fix buffer overflow in rx_stream failover path\n\nThe failover continuation in carl9170_rx_stream() copies the full tlen\nfrom the second USB transfer instead of capping at rx_failover_missing\nbytes. When both transfers are near maximum size, the total exceeds the\n65535-byte failover SKB, triggering skb_over_panic.\n\nLimit the copy size to the missing byte count.\n\n[Fix checkpatch CHECK:PARENTHESIS_ALIGNMENT]"
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