# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98186"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:44:28.429Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:15:17.749Z"
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-2026-98186"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98186.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98186"
title: "wifi: mwifiex: bound the pairwise-cipher OUI walk to the IE length"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mwifiex: bound the pairwise-cipher OUI walk to the IE length\n\nmwifiex_search_oui_in_ie() reads a pairwise-cipher (PTK) count from a\nbeacon/probe-response RSN or WPA information element and then walks that\nmany 4-byte OUIs, comparing each with memcmp(). The count comes straight\nfrom the (attacker-supplied) IE and is never checked against the\nelement's own length, and the callers admit the element on element_id\nalone (has_ieee_hdr() / has_vendor_hdr(), no length check). A crafted\nRSN/WPA IE with a large pairwise count therefore makes the walk read up\nto 255 * 4 bytes past the element -- an out-of-bounds read of the\nkmemdup()'d beacon buffer, reachable from any AP whose beacon/probe\nresponse is processed during scan-result parsing.\n\nPass the number of IE bytes available at the OUI list and bound the walk\nto the element. Keep the length signed and reject a negative value\nbefore any unsigned arithmetic, so a small or zero IE length cannot\nunderflow to a large size_t and defeat the bound.\n\nFound by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai)."
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