UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98829: High severity ubuntu/linux-aws vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: drop oversized fragments to avoid extralen overflow In ieee80211rxhdefragment(), fragment payloads are accumulated into entry->extralen as subsequent fragments arrive: entry->extralen += rx->skb->len; When the final fragment arrives, the head fragment is dequeued, and pskbexpandhead() is called with entry->extralen to ensure sufficient tailroom for all queued fragments before copying: if (skbtailroom(rx->skb) < entry->extralen) { if (unlikely(pskbexpandhead(rx->skb, 0, entry->extralen, GFPATOMIC))) { ... } } while ((skb = skbdequeue(&entry->skblist))) { skbputdata(rx->skb, skb->data, skb->len); devkfreeskb(skb); } In commit 69f132236827 ("mac80211: shrink struct ieee80211fragmententry"), entry->extralen was narrowed from unsigned int to u16 in order to reduce structure memory footprint. However, an IEEE 802.11 frame sequence can contain up to 16 fragments (frag numbers 0..15). If a sequence of large fragments arrives (e.g. from a malicious peer or rogue AP), the sum of fragment lengths can exceed 65535 bytes (for example, 15 fragments of 4400 bytes total 66000 bytes). Because extralen is a u16, this addition overflows and wraps around modulo 65536 (e.g. 66000 wraps to 464). Consequently, pskbexpandhead() allocates only the truncated amount of tailroom (or is skipped entirely if the head fragment already has >= 464 bytes of tailroom). When skbputdata() subsequently iterates through the queued skb list, it appends the full payload into the undersized buffer, causing skbput() to trigger skboverpanic() and crash the kernel in softirq context. A legitimate MSDU in IEEE 802.11 is at most 2304 bytes (or up to 7935/11454 bytes for A-MSDU, which is not fragmented), well below U16MAX. Fix this without increasing the size of struct ieee80211fragmententry by checking whether adding the incoming fragment length would exceed U16MAX. If so, purge the queued fragments and drop the frame. [assign a separate drop reason]