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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68402" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:04:22.113Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:09:08.740Z" 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-2026-68402" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68402.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68402" title: "wifi: cfg80211: bound element ID read when checking non-inheritance" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: cfg80211: bound element ID read when checking non-inheritance\n\ncfg80211_is_element_inherited() reads the first data octet of the\ncandidate element (id = elem-\u003edata[0]) to look it up in an extension\nnon-inheritance list. It does so after testing elem-\u003eid, but without\nverifying that the element actually has a data octet. A zero-length\nextension element (WLAN_EID_EXTENSION with length 0) therefore makes it\nread one octet past the end of the element.\n\n_ieee802_11_parse_elems_full() runs this check for every element of a\nframe once a non-inheritance context exists -- e.g. while parsing a\nper-STA profile of a Multi-Link element in a (re)association response,\nor a non-transmitted BSS profile -- so a crafted frame from an AP can\ntrigger a one-octet slab-out-of-bounds read during element parsing:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in cfg80211_is_element_inherited\n Read of size 1 ... in net/wireless/scan.c\n\nReturn early (treat the element as inherited) when an extension element\ncarries no data, mirroring the existing handling of empty ID lists.\n\nThe bug was found by fuzzing ieee802_11_parse_elems_full() under KASAN." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f7dacfb11475ba777e1e84ccec2e14b0ba5a17a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"521dd5fe6d12b0d3c275f919738dc3a07117f4a5"},{"version":"f7dacfb11475ba777e1e84ccec2e14b0ba5a17a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"24154c172246ae3f0e69bb17c9111095685ceedc"},{"version":"f7dacfb11475ba777e1e84ccec2e14b0ba5a17a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2d31ebb26a14f103c9cdc5287fb20cb2d4bde901"},{"version":"f7dacfb11475ba777e1e84ccec2e14b0ba5a17a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"20c308d9a57722801961f816395bf825f7bde6bc"},{"version":"f7dacfb11475ba777e1e84ccec2e14b0ba5a17a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84bd907361c56fbd5523eceb2682cb39da059bd5"},{"version":"f7dacfb11475ba777e1e84ccec2e14b0ba5a17a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"11ac7a5e75f5132f1778e0c60981d30dc29fb869"},{"version":"f7dacfb11475ba777e1e84ccec2e14b0ba5a17a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ddf2773bcc8e49a43c561f22ec1e7924215d7947"},{"version":"f7dacfb11475ba777e1e84ccec2e14b0ba5a17a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb8afea4655ff004fa7feee825d5c79783525383"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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