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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74554"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:28:00.097Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:55.415Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74554"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74554.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74554"
title: "wifi: ath12k: fix out-of-bounds clear_bit in ath12k_mac_dp_peer_cleanup()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath12k: fix out-of-bounds clear_bit in ath12k_mac_dp_peer_cleanup()\n\nath12k_mac_dp_peer_cleanup() clears the ML peer ID slot on the\nfree_ml_peer_id_map bitmap by indexing it with dp_peer-\u003epeer_id. That is\nwrong: dp_peer-\u003epeer_id for an MLO peer always carries the\nATH12K_PEER_ML_ID_VALID bit (BIT(13)), so clear_bit() is invoked with\nindex \u003e= 0x2000, which is far outside the bitmap of ATH12K_MAX_MLO_PEERS\n(256) bits and corrupts memory adjacent to ah-\u003efree_ml_peer_id_map. The\nintended bitmap entry also never gets cleared, so subsequent\nath12k_peer_ml_alloc() calls eventually run out of IDs.\n\nThe ID without the VALID bit is what ath12k_peer_ml_alloc() returned and\nis stored in ahsta-\u003eml_peer_id. Use that instead.\n\nWhile there, also reset ahsta-\u003eml_peer_id to ATH12K_MLO_PEER_ID_INVALID so\nthe bitmap and ahsta-\u003eml_peer_id stay in sync.\n\nTested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.1.c5-00302-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-1.115823.3"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ee16dcf573d5e3283fda601dd4bca6bc52251017","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"234b5cb81e6fcc1e3b31b13deff66130be55f36e"},{"version":"ee16dcf573d5e3283fda601dd4bca6bc52251017","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47abd2ca281531deee38a3b3770d885e270e9fc9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.0"},{"version":"7.1.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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