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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97518"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T16:05:18.072Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:53:01.807Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97518"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97518.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97518"
title: "wifi: cfg80211: reject duplicate wiphy cipher suite entries"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: cfg80211: reject duplicate wiphy cipher suite entries\n\nDuplicate entries in wiphy-\u003ecipher_suites do not describe any\nadditional capability, but cfg80211 currently accepts them and leaves\nindividual consumers to deal with them.\n\nOne such consumer is the WEXT compatibility code, which appends a WEP\nkey length for each WEP cipher entry it sees. Repeated WEP entries can\ntherefore overflow the fixed iw_range::encoding_size array returned by\nSIOCGIWRANGE.\n\nReject duplicate cipher suite entries in wiphy_register() instead.\nThis keeps the cipher suite invariant in one place and makes malformed\nwiphy descriptions fail early with -EINVAL, rather than relying on a\nsingle cfg80211 user to handle duplicates correctly."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d12e92e72db914e1ea777c6f246f6be75985438e"},{"version":"2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1305f8b925fe92edf5fec183588dfc7db719180b"},{"version":"2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4cbb2360f4d8c29e67bc7a8bf6ba0ae096583923"},{"version":"2ab658f9ce218ae93b3d2db2b3fe68bfefb81196","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7187d145d9042b037e4f10538f70cf95e380219f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.32","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.32"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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