# 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-2026-98830"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:49:31.843Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:57:17.057Z"
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-2026-98830"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98830.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98830"
title: "wifi: wfx: validate MIB read length before copying to caller"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: wfx: validate MIB read length before copying to caller\n\nwfx_hif_read_mib() copies reply-\u003elength bytes from the firmware\nresponse into the caller-provided buffer without checking that\nreply-\u003elength does not exceed val_len. A firmware response with\na length field larger than expected overruns the caller buffer and\nreads past the end of the reply allocation.\n\nReplace the dead -ENOMEM check with an active validation that\nreply-\u003elength fits within val_len before the memcpy."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f95a29d40782f4f0052a692a822de3ba044b19ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"819d4c1323e2a9b7329021d5367aa01add22b5dc"},{"version":"f95a29d40782f4f0052a692a822de3ba044b19ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02886c18a340da59df57365f29009e1258bfe333"},{"version":"f95a29d40782f4f0052a692a822de3ba044b19ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"71d140099165de03128c00dd129f1eab21c6a3c4"},{"version":"f95a29d40782f4f0052a692a822de3ba044b19ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7acb36fd60a3e7b858f12e69a919c3609b281408"},{"version":"f95a29d40782f4f0052a692a822de3ba044b19ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce67ebe9d8629776ce38e6995ae72fb903c828db"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"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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