THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-80635 (HIGH 8.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: wcn36xx: fix OOB read from short trigger BA firmware response
The firmware response length is only checked against sizeof(*rsp) (20
bytes), but when candidate_cnt >= 1, a 22-byte candidate struct is read
[NVD] CVE-2026-80635 (HIGH 8.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: wcn36xx: fix OOB read from short trigger BA firmware response The firmware response length is only checked against sizeof(*rsp) (20 bytes), but when candidate_cnt >= 1, a 22-byte candidate struct is read
CVE-2026-80635 CVSS: 8.8 HIGH Published: 2026-08-28T08:16:48.400
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: wcn36xx: fix OOB read from short trigger BA firmware response
The firmware response length is only checked against sizeof(*rsp) (20 bytes), but when candidate_cnt >= 1, a 22-byte candidate struct is read at buf + 20 without verifying the response contains it
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-80635cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80635