# 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-2026-68351"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:03:28.312Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:33:53.098Z"
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-2026-68351"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68351.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68351"
title: "wifi: carl9170: bound memcpy length in cmd callback to prevent OOB read"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: carl9170: bound memcpy length in cmd callback to prevent OOB read\n\nWhen the firmware sends a command response with a length mismatch,\ncarl9170_cmd_callback() logs the mismatch and calls carl9170_restart()\nbut then falls through to memcpy(ar-\u003ereadbuf, buffer + 4, len - 4).\nSince len comes from the firmware and can exceed ar-\u003ereadlen, this\ncopies more data than the readbuf was allocated for.\n\nBound the memcpy to min(len - 4, ar-\u003ereadlen) so that the response\nis still completed -- avoiding repeated restarts from queued garbage --\nwhile preventing an overread past the response buffer."
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