# 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-2026-68411"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:04:31.532Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:35:07.403Z"
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-2026-68411"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68411.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68411"
title: "wifi: mac80211_hwsim: clamp virtio RX length before skb_put"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211_hwsim: clamp virtio RX length before skb_put\n\nhwsim_virtio_rx_work() passes the virtqueue used-ring length reported by\nthe device straight to skb_put() on a fixed-size receive skb. A backend\nreporting a length larger than the skb tailroom drives skb_put() past the\nbuffer end and hits skb_over_panic() -- a host-triggerable guest panic\n(denial of service).\n\nClamp the length to the skb's available room before skb_put(). A\nconforming device never reports more than the posted buffer size, so valid\nframes are unaffected; a truncated over-report then fails the\nlength/header checks in hwsim_virtio_handle_cmd() and is dropped, so\ntruncating rather than dropping here cannot be turned into a parsing\nproblem."
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