[PATCH v2 0/3] wifi: wcn36xx: fix OOB reads and heap overflow from firmware responses

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Thu Apr 16 11:39:36 PDT 2026


On Thu, 2026-04-16 at 09:25 -0700, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On 4/15/2026 3:37 PM, Tristan Madani wrote:
> > From: Tristan Madani <tristan at talencesecurity.com>
> > 
> > Hi Loic,
> > 
> > Note: this is a v2 resubmission. The original was sent via Gmail which
> > caused HTML rendering issues. This version uses git send-email for
> > proper plain-text formatting.
> > 
> > Three issues in wcn36xx HAL firmware response handling, including a heap
> > overflow in the main response dispatcher:
> > 
> > Proposed fixes in the following patches.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Tristan
> 
> Are you able to cause these issues to occur?
> My expectation is that this is testing things that firmware will never do, and
> hence this adds code and processing with no actual benefit.

We're not really supposed to completely trust firmware though, right? :)

johannes



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