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CVE-2026-93789

Updated on 24 Sep 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: iwlwifi: bound aligned TLV advance in FW parser

Validate ALIGN(tlv_len, 4) against remaining parser length before consuming bytes from the firmware image.

This avoids length underflow on malformed TLVs.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Debian 11 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
linux @ 5.4.0 (+17 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Debian 12 Planned —
Debian 13 Released
17 kernels
  • 6.12.85-1
  • 6.12.86-1
  • 6.12.88-1
  • 6.12.74-2
  • 6.12.73-1
  • 6.12.63-1
  • 6.12.69-1
  • 6.12.74-1
  • 6.12.90-1
  • 6.12.90-2
  • 6.12.94-1
  • 6.12.95-1
  • 6.12.96-1
  • 6.12.100-1
  • 6.12.101-1
  • 6.12.105-1
  • 6.12.107-1