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CVE-2026-63869

HIGH
7.6
CVSS 3.1
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: limit injected antenna index in ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap When parsing the radiotap header of an injected frame, ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap() uses the IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_ANTENNA value directly as a shift count: info->control.antennas |= BIT(*iterator.this_arg); *iterator.this_arg is an 8-bit value taken straight from the frame supplied by userspace, so BIT() can be asked to shift by up to 255. That is undefined behaviour on the unsigned long and is reported by UBSAN: UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/mac80211/tx.c:2174:30 shift exponent 235 is too large for 64-bit type 'unsigned long' Call Trace: ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap+0xadb/0x1950 net/mac80211/tx.c:2174 ieee80211_monitor_start_xmit+0xb1f/0x1250 net/mac80211/tx.c:2451 ... packet_sendmsg+0x3eb6/0x50f0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3109 info->control.antennas is a 2-bit bitmap (u8 antennas:2), so only antenna indices 0 and 1 can ever be represented. Ignore any larger value instead of shifting out of bounds.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-63869
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-07-19 07:54 UTC
Published
2026-07-19 14:18 UTC
Last updated
2026-07-20 13:41 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

7.6 HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux ef246a1480cc484cd2aeda75737cb0848616ddf3 < f6d3dc8e8492bf8435e0b23c99472af7bafd6b44, ef246a1480cc484cd2aeda75737cb0848616ddf3 < 9b40c59bab08f2a99abf969cc0bb92fa49de004b, ef246a1480cc484cd2aeda75737cb0848616ddf3 < 033ce021a220913ac02416fcb5ac883a9ff8b6c7, ef246a1480cc484cd2aeda75737cb0848616ddf3 < 6c0cf89f36ac0c0fd8687a4ccdce2efb23a9c663
Linux Linux 6.7, 0 < 6.7, 6.12.94 ≤ 6.12.*, 6.18.36 ≤ 6.18.* …
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
7.6 HIGH 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
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