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CVE-2026-31780

high

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wilc1000: fix u8 overflow in SSID scan buffer size calculation The variable valuesi…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wilc1000: fix u8 overflow in SSID scan buffer size calculation The variable valuesize is declared as u8 but accumulates the total length of all SSIDs to scan. Each SSID contributes up to 33 bytes (IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN + 1), and with WILC_MAX_NUM_PROBED_SSID (10) SSIDs the total can reach 330, which wraps around to 74 when stored in a u8. This causes kmalloc to allocate only 75 bytes while the subsequent memcpy writes up to 331 bytes into the buffer, resulting in a 256-byte heap buffer overflow. Widen valuesize from u8 to u32 to accommodate the full range.

CVSS
7.8
7.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-05-01 15:16
Modified: 2026-11-11 21:10
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 5 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-11 21:11 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥4.2 <5.10.253, ≥5.11 <5.15.203, ≥5.16 <6.1.168, ≥6.2 <6.6.134, ≥6.7 <6.12.81, ≥6.13 <6.18.22

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c7f21d8bd2f93998b72b7a7f93152336aeca4dd
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34a23fd9ddd683a03c7e8cc0ceded3e59e354b99
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/549f02d8ec94d39092ab6d9b103d0d6783a4b024
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9907ac9b9a18b92fc34b9e4cb9e10f208dc1d3f7
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfbddeadd4779651403035ee177ae2f22f9f5521
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c97b2a00059608592ad0d86fbb813a4f8cf9464b
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d049e56b1739101d1c4d81deedb269c52a8dbba0
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8388614de613c28eeb659c10115060a83739924

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-11 21:11 UTC · record ↗

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