# 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-2026-98887"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T11:37:44.605Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T11:37:44.605Z"
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-2026-98887"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98887.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98887"
title: "wifi: mac80211_hwsim: reject undersized HWSIM_ATTR_TX_INFO"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211_hwsim: reject undersized HWSIM_ATTR_TX_INFO\n\nhwsim_tx_info_frame_received_nl() casts the HWSIM_ATTR_TX_INFO payload\nto a struct hwsim_tx_rate * and unconditionally reads\nIEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES entries (8 bytes) from it. The policy only bounds\nthe attribute from above (NLA_BINARY .len is a maximum) and the op sets\nGENL_DONT_VALIDATE_STRICT, so a short or zero-length attribute is\naccepted and the loop reads past the payload.\n\nRequire the exact length in the policy, so a malformed attribute is\nrejected before the handler runs."
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