CVE-2026-98827
kernel: wifi: ath9k_htc: bound TX aggregation to MAX_TX_BUF_SIZE
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
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 · 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write