# CVE-2026-80937: wifi: mt76: mt7915: bound the device EEPROM address before the EFUSE copy

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.6.160, 6.12.112, 6.18.50, 7.2.4
- Published: 2026-09-11 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.8
- Kernel (Linux): from 5.8.0, fixed in 6.6.160; from 6.7.0, fixed in 6.12.112; from 6.13.0, fixed in 6.18.50; from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.2.4

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7915: bound the device EEPROM address before the EFUSE copy mt7915_mcu_get_eeprom() copies a fixed EFUSE block into the driver's dev->mt76.eeprom.data buffer at the offset reported by the MCU response (res->addr, a device-controlled __le32) without checking it against the buffer size. A malicious or malfunctioning device can report an arbitrary address and drive a 16-byte out-of-bounds write past eeprom.data. Reject a response whose address would place the copy outside eeprom.data before deriving the destination pointer. Devices that echo the requested in-bounds offset are unaffected.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (6.6.160, 6.12.112, 6.18.50, 7.2.4) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef10a2ec2a74c4a6aa5c086fc0c2b01037569134
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6774f6af3711143a93281904a928a78652c8b7e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/394e8cb56fc732d71041599cdb4e01f82cfd11c5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fdaf7016d7684ef756a229fd5d96b4a140eeb40
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f48b0d752a76590e2c613aae5345c2474627d1b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44b5adfe49499f53002737f5fe81d608c08122fc

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