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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80944" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:42:16.076Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:45:28.363Z" 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-2026-80944" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80944.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80944" title: "wifi: mwifiex: Detach sync cmd buffer on interrupted wait" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mwifiex: Detach sync cmd buffer on interrupted wait\n\nmwifiex synchronous commands keep the caller-provided data buffer in\ncmd_node-\u003edata_buf. Several callers pass stack-allocated objects there.\n\nIf wait_event_interruptible_timeout() is interrupted, the caller can\nreturn and release that stack object while the firmware command is still\nthe current command. A late firmware response then reaches the normal\nresponse handler, which can copy data through cmd_node-\u003edata_buf into the\nstale stack address.\n\nThis fixes a stack corruption observed during repeated association and\ndisassociation cycles. The panic trace showed the command wait being\ninterrupted immediately before a bad pointer dereference:\n\n cmd_wait_q terminated: -512\n Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 002c583837384662\n Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted\n ...\n Tainted: [M]=MACHINE_CHECK\n\nThe fault address decodes as little-endian ASCII:\n\n 0x002c583837384662 -\u003e \"bF878X,\\0\"\n\nwhich is a fragment of the VERSION_EXT firmware string exposed as\ndebugfs \"verext\":\n\n w8997o-V4, RF878X, FP92, 16.92.21.p153.7\n\nThe same runs also showed corrupted control data containing:\n\n 0x2400372e333531 -\u003e \"153.7\\0$\"\n\nwhich is the tail of the same VERSION_EXT string. This points at a late\nVERSION_EXT response writing through a stale stack-backed data_buf after\nthe interrupted wait returned.\n\nAfter cancelling pending commands on an interrupted or timed-out wait,\ndetach the caller-owned data buffer from the still-current command. This\npreserves the existing command cancellation behaviour while preventing a\nlate response from writing through a pointer whose lifetime ended with the\nwaiting caller.\n\nTested on an i.MX8MP board using an 88W8997." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3d026d09b28dda24777129a931634949c75a9181","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c67b8c50286e0cb7f18d667e6a37a2ec6e08ff9"},{"version":"3d026d09b28dda24777129a931634949c75a9181","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9024c7729eb523cf4f3a4203966d3a4aaabf030d"},{"version":"3d026d09b28dda24777129a931634949c75a9181","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e06c9c8a1f10c55d9bc5d139656d58795e64483"},{"version":"3d026d09b28dda24777129a931634949c75a9181","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f2134d6ff30cd6e1bf63d6b0a5d8e0839f0168b3"},{"version":"3d026d09b28dda24777129a931634949c75a9181","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"20ee9c03f261bf6ac59331e2ca7b46b23646412a"},{"version":"3d026d09b28dda24777129a931634949c75a9181","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1bbeb8970eeb6c6bf3cd5314138103f7b69446d"},{"version":"3d026d09b28dda24777129a931634949c75a9181","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d29a165588b6a0cf7a38db5cbd602aef7ef8c658"},{"version":"3d026d09b28dda24777129a931634949c75a9181","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ef06882c7d8a7400b67d0d003b1008093dd589ed"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.15"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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