# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98658"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:44:12.196Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:23:26.505Z"
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-2026-98658"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98658.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98658"
title: "iio: proximity: aw96103: validate firmware data length"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: proximity: aw96103: validate firmware data length\n\nThe firmware parser reads a length from the binary header and then uses\nit to walk six-byte register/value entries. A truncated firmware image\ncan make the parser read beyond the copied firmware buffer. A value\nsmaller than the four-byte count field also underflows, producing a very\nlarge length.\n\nRead the little-endian field with get_unaligned_le32(), as previously\nproposed by David Lechner. Validate the header size, reject an\nunderflowed length, ensure the resulting payload is contained in the\nfirmware image, and require it to contain whole register/value entries."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"07b241262dcad07671c444ca955903325de28e9e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4a9b9f2d4e26589afd0ac099c8e5593170dd5ac7"},{"version":"07b241262dcad07671c444ca955903325de28e9e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6501b032be217ecf47e793b78a05078cf0b604ad"},{"version":"07b241262dcad07671c444ca955903325de28e9e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"815ae0b73b69ace207b6bbf7ef428b06491c3ddb"},{"version":"07b241262dcad07671c444ca955903325de28e9e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a7c522a35477d70320bd64aba8e9de0c1058c6f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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