CVE-2026-31780

wifi: wilc1000: fix u8 overflow in SSID scan buffer size calculation

High · published May 1, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

wifi: wilc1000: fix u8 overflow in SSID scan buffer size calculation

The variable valuesize is declared as u8 but accumulates the total

length of all SSIDs to scan. Each SSID contributes up to 33 bytes

(IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN + 1), and with WILC_MAX_NUM_PROBED_SSID (10)

SSIDs the total can reach 330, which wraps around to 74 when stored

in a u8.

This causes kmalloc to allocate only 75 bytes while the subsequent

memcpy writes up to 331 bytes into the buffer, resulting in a 256-byte

heap buffer overflow.

Widen valuesize from u8 to u32 to accommodate the full range.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00190 · 8.2th percentile
Published
2026-05-01T14:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 14:15Z
    wifi: wilc1000: fix u8 overflow in SSID scan buffer size calculation
    cvelistv5