CVE-2026-23073
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rsi: Fix memory corruption due to not set vif driver data size
The struct ieee80211_vif contains trailing space for vif driver data, when struct ieee80211_vif is allocated, the total memory size that is allocated is sizeof(struct ieee80211_vif) + size of vif driver data. The size of vif driver data is set by each WiFi driver as needed.
The RSI911x driver does not set vif driver data size, no trailing space for vif driver data is therefore allocated past struct ieee80211_vif . The RSI911x driver does however use the vif driver data to store its vif driver data structure "struct vif_priv". An access to vif->drv_priv leads to access out of struct ieee80211_vif bounds and corruption of some memory.
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In case of the failure observed locally, rsi_mac80211_add_interface() would write struct vif_priv *vif_info = (struct vif_priv *)vif->drv_priv; vif_info->vap_id = vap_idx. This write corrupts struct fq_tin member struct list_head new_flows . The flow = list_first_entry(head, struct fq_flow, flowchain); in fq_tin_reset() then reports non-NULL bogus address, which when accessed causes a crash.
The trigger is very simple, boot the machine with init=/bin/sh , mount devtmpfs, sysfs, procfs, and then do "ip link set wlan0 up", "sleep 1", "ip link set wlan0 down" and the crash occurs.
Fix this by setting the correct size of vif driver data, which is the size of "struct vif_priv", so that memory is allocated and the driver can store its driver data in it, instead of corrupting memory around it.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.8
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.15%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 4
- Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK
Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.
- Explotación
T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalationprivilege escalation85 % - Impacto principal
T1499.004Application or System Exploitationimpact80 % - Impacto secundario
T1565.001Stored Data Manipulationimpact75 %
Acceso local (AV:L) sin interacción (UI:N) con privilegios locales (PR:L) permite corrupción de memoria en kernel Linux; impacta disponibilidad (crash en fq_tin_reset) e integridad de datos en memoria.
Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.
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Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-787
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d7c9e793e351cbbe9e06a9ca47d77b6ad288fb0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31efbcff90884ea5f65bf3d1de01267db51ee3d1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49ef094fdbc3526e5db2aebb404b84f79c5603dc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f431d88ea8093afc7ba55edf4652978c5a68f33
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7761d7801f40e61069b4df3db88b36d80d089f8a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c54d0c3e2cad4300be721ec2aecfcf8a63bc9f4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99129d80a5d4989ef8566f434f3589f60f28042b
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