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Tracker / CVE-2026-22978

CVE-2026-22978

Low 3.3

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: avoid kernel-infoleak from struct iw_point struct iw_point has a 32bit hole on 64bit arches. struct iw_point { void __user *pointer; /* Pointer to the data (in user space) */ __u16 length; /* number of fields or size in bytes */ __u16 flags; /* Optional params */ }; Make sure to zero the structure to avoid disclosing 32bits of kernel data to user space.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.27 → 5.10.248
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.198
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.161
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.6
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.121
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.66

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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