# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68469"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:51:27.429Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:06:11.253Z"
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-2026-68469"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68469.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68469"
title: "wifi: mwifiex: fix permanently busy scans after multiple roam iterations"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mwifiex: fix permanently busy scans after multiple roam iterations\n\nIn order for the firmware to sleep, the driver has to confirm a\npreviously received sleep request. The normal sequence of evets goes\nlike this:\nEVENT_SLEEP -\u003e adapter-\u003eps_state = PS_STATE_PRE_SLEEP -\u003e sleep-confirm\n-\u003e SLEEP -\u003e EVENT_AWAKE -\u003e AWAKE.\nBefore sending the sleep-confirm command, the driver must make sure\nthere are no commands either running or waiting to be completed.\n\nmwifiex_ret_802_11_associate() unconditionally sets\nps_state = PS_STATE_AWAKE when it processes the association command\nresponse, outside of the normal powersave management flow. If\nEVENT_SLEEP arrives while the association command is in flight,\nps_state is PRE_SLEEP when the association command response is parsed,\nand the forced AWAKE overwrites it. The deferred sleep-confirm is\nnever sent.\n\nA subsequent scan_start command is correctly acknowledged, but the\nfirmware doesn't generate scan_result events. The scan request never\nfinishes, and additional requests from userspace fail with -EBUSY.\n\nAfter testing on both IW412 and W8997, I could only trigger the bug on\nthe IW412 and observed the firmwares behave differently. On the IW412\nthe firmware still sends EVENT_SLEEP while the authentication /\nassociation process is ongoing. A W8997 under the same\nconditions seems to suppress power-save for the duration of the\nassociation, so PRE_SLEEP never coincided with the association response\neven after extended periods of testing using the loops\ndescribed below (\u003e12hours).\n\nOn the IW412, the delay between commands that triggers an EVENT_SLEEP\nwas empirically determined to be ~20ms. This delay can naturally occur\nwhen the driver is outputting debugging information\n(debug_mask = 0x00000037), in which situation the busy scans issue is\nrepeatable while running \"test 1)\" as described below. If the delay\nbetween commands is less than ~20ms, the firmware stays awake and\nthe issue was not reproducible running the same test.\n\nThe host_mlme=false path also behaves differently. In this case, the\nentire authentication / association transaction is executed by one\ncommand (HostCmd_CMD_802_11_ASSOCIATE), and the firmware doesn't emit\nEVENT_SLEEP while the command is running.\n\nRemove the assignment so the ps_state is only manipulated in the paths\nthat are related to powersave event handling and on the main workqueue\nfor correct sleep confirmation.\n\nThe following loop tests were performed (with debugging output enabled):\n1) force roaming between two AP's, one 5GHz and one 2.4GHz, same\nSSID. Use wpa_cli to trigger the roaming behavior, sleep 2s\nbetween iterations.\n2) force a disconnection to AP 1 and a connection to AP 2, test\nscan. Use wpa_cli to trigger the connection changes, sleep 2s\nbetween iterations.\n\nEach test ran in each device for at least 3 hours."
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