Security Advisory

CVE-2026-22978

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-01-23 15:24:00
Last updated 2026-05-11 21:57:37
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.