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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98829" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:49:29.426Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:26:21.901Z" 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-2026-98829" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98829.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98829" title: "wifi: mac80211: drop oversized fragments to avoid extra_len overflow" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: drop oversized fragments to avoid extra_len overflow\n\nIn ieee80211_rx_h_defragment(), fragment payloads are accumulated into\nentry-\u003eextra_len as subsequent fragments arrive:\n\n entry-\u003eextra_len += rx-\u003eskb-\u003elen;\n\nWhen the final fragment arrives, the head fragment is dequeued, and\npskb_expand_head() is called with entry-\u003eextra_len to ensure sufficient\ntailroom for all queued fragments before copying:\n\n if (skb_tailroom(rx-\u003eskb) \u003c entry-\u003eextra_len) {\n if (unlikely(pskb_expand_head(rx-\u003eskb, 0, entry-\u003eextra_len,\n GFP_ATOMIC))) {\n ...\n }\n }\n while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&entry-\u003eskb_list))) {\n skb_put_data(rx-\u003eskb, skb-\u003edata, skb-\u003elen);\n dev_kfree_skb(skb);\n }\n\nIn commit 69f132236827 (\"mac80211: shrink struct\nieee80211_fragment_entry\"), entry-\u003eextra_len was narrowed from unsigned\nint to u16 in order to reduce structure memory footprint.\n\nHowever, an IEEE 802.11 frame sequence can contain up to 16 fragments\n(frag numbers 0..15). If a sequence of large fragments arrives (e.g. from\na malicious peer or rogue AP), the sum of fragment lengths can exceed\n65535 bytes (for example, 15 fragments of 4400 bytes total 66000 bytes).\nBecause extra_len is a u16, this addition overflows and wraps around\nmodulo 65536 (e.g. 66000 wraps to 464).\n\nConsequently, pskb_expand_head() allocates only the truncated amount of\ntailroom (or is skipped entirely if the head fragment already has \u003e= 464\nbytes of tailroom). When skb_put_data() subsequently iterates through the\nqueued skb list, it appends the full payload into the undersized buffer,\ncausing skb_put() to trigger skb_over_panic() and crash the kernel in\nsoftirq context.\n\nA legitimate MSDU in IEEE 802.11 is at most 2304 bytes (or up to 7935/11454\nbytes for A-MSDU, which is not fragmented), well below U16_MAX.\n\nFix this without increasing the size of struct ieee80211_fragment_entry by\nchecking whether adding the incoming fragment length would exceed U16_MAX.\nIf so, purge the queued fragments and drop the frame.\n\n[assign a separate drop reason]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"69f132236827ce7d4531846cc2b9447dd5620aff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9338b2dea74cb0fc80a4c958b68e687610ba2261"},{"version":"69f132236827ce7d4531846cc2b9447dd5620aff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"870b8cb9baa9bd859deceb33ae158011e6ba2360"},{"version":"69f132236827ce7d4531846cc2b9447dd5620aff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e4f3509793b4db2c0835340224743db680e861f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.3"},{"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"}] ## 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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