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the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: wilc1000: fix RX buffer OOB-write in wilc_wlan_handle_isr_ext()\n\nwilc_wlan_handle_isr_ext() takes the RX transfer size from the\ndevice-reported interrupt status register (a 15-bit field shifted left by 2,\nup to 131068 bytes) and reads that many bytes from the device into\nrx_buffer, which is only WILC_RX_BUFF_SIZE (96K) large. 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