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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-74408

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:22:42 AM

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

wifi: ath9k: fix OOB access from firmware tx status queue ID

ath_tx_edma_tasklet() accesses sc->tx.txq[ts.qid] where ts.qid is a
4-bit hardware field (0-15), but the txq array only has
ATH9K_NUM_TX_QUEUES (10) entries. A qid >= 10 causes an OOB array
access.

Add a bounds check on ts.qid before using it as an array index.
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/336d4c8cd9b1646060ee690c881d465dfc09c6c0
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46ca1451f61b598f45cb5259e066d305444d95fc
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5435fd3edcb11c7cc4002847c83e9a50b49284dc
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/734db72d55ca578a344dfa33e30145032c074b25
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ce2f118a2389e8f0a64068c6fe7cc7d40639be0
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9e055ac62cb3fcea262d4b687ec73eed82b3379
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5931d06b45ed402572bfe5832fff15864ef5481
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb11083db9d7d6fb8f98bbba1cbfcf3fb7b4bf54
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