CVE-2026-98698
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: handle empty FILS association request payload fils_encrypt_assoc_req() accepts a (Re)Association Request frame whose last element is the FILS Session element. crypt_len is then zero and aes_siv_encrypt() is called with an empty plaintext. kmemdup() returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR for a zero-length allocation, so the unconditional sg_init_one() puts an invalid page into the scatterlist. With CONFIG_DEBUG_SG this triggers a kernel BUG in sg_set_buf(); without the debug check the bogus page is handed to the crypto backend. AES-SIV is defined for empty plaintext and the S2V result is then the complete output, so handle this case before the CTR step, which has nothing to encrypt.
Properties
- Last source
- FIRST EPSS
- Nvd fetched at
- 2026-10-20T21:14:08.448323+00:00
- Epss score
- 0.00168
- Cve id
- CVE-2026-98698
- First seen by Signal
- 2026-10-18T18:05:58+00:00
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-21T01:24:51+00:00
- Published at
- 2026-10-18T16:17:23.280
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19T10:19:34.137
- Epss percentile
- 0.05677
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