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CVE-2026-98827

kernel: wifi: ath9k_htc: bound TX aggregation to MAX_TX_BUF_SIZE

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 18, 2026

Updated · October 24, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ath9k_htc wireless network driver. An attacker transmitting large network packets can trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) or system crash through memory corruption. This issue occurs because the driver limits aggregated transmit packets only by count rather than cumulative data size, causing a buffer overflow when copying oversized network frames into a fixed-size buffer.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write