# 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-2026-98703"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:46:33.395Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:55:51.935Z"
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-2026-98703"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98703.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98703"
title: "wifi: mac80211: minstrel_ht: validate fixed rate index"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: minstrel_ht: validate fixed rate index\n\nThe fixed_rate_idx debugfs file is a plain u32 attribute, so any value\ncan be written to it.  minstrel_ht_update_stats() then copies the value\ninto mi-\u003emax_tp_rate[] and mi-\u003emax_prob_rate, and\nminstrel_ht_set_rate() uses MI_RATE_GROUP()/MI_RATE_IDX() to index\nminstrel_mcs_groups[] (42 entries) and mi-\u003egroups[].rates[] (10 entries)\nwith it.\n\nWriting e.g. 65535 selects group 4095 and rate index 15, far outside\nboth arrays.  The out-of-bounds entries are dereferenced and updated as\nstruct minstrel_rate_stats (retry counts, etc.), so the invalid index\ncorrupts adjacent kernel memory.  With CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS the access is\nreported as an array-index-out-of-bounds in minstrel_ht_set_rate().\n\nOnly a valid group/rate pair, or U32_MAX to disable fixed rate\nprocessing, can be used safely, so reject any other value when the\ndebugfs file is written.\n\nThe file is only reachable through a root-only debugfs mount, so this is\nnot a privilege boundary.  The out-of-bounds access is still a bug that\nmust not be reachable through a writable debugfs attribute."
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