CVE-2026-43213

wifi: rtw89: pci: validate sequence number of TX release report

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
May 6, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: rtw89: pci: validate sequence number of TX release report

Hardware rarely reports abnormal sequence number in TX release report, which will access out-of-bounds of wd_ring->pages array, causing NULL pointer dereference.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 PID: 1085 Comm: irq/129-rtw89_p Tainted: G S U 6.1.145-17510-g2f3369c91536 #1 (HASH:69e8 1) Call Trace: <IRQ> rtw89_pci_release_tx+0x18f/0x300 [rtw89_pci (HASH:4c83 2)] rtw89_pci_napi_poll+0xc2/0x190 [rtw89_pci (HASH:4c83 2)] net_rx_action+0xfc/0x460 net/core/dev.c:6578 net/core/dev.c:6645 net/core/dev.c:6759 handle_softirqs+0xbe/0x290 kernel/softirq.c:601 ? rtw89_pci_interrupt_threadfn+0xc5/0x350 [rtw89_pci (HASH:4c83 2)] __local_bh_enable_ip+0xeb/0x120 kernel/softirq.c:499 kernel/softirq.c:423 </IRQ> <TASK> rtw89_pci_interrupt_threadfn+0xf8/0x350 [rtw89_pci (HASH:4c83 2)] ? irq_thread+0xa7/0x340 kernel/irq/manage.c:0 irq_thread+0x177/0x340 kernel/irq/manage.c:1205 kernel/irq/manage.c:1314 ? thaw_kernel_threads+0xb0/0xb0 kernel/irq/manage.c:1202 ? irq_forced_thread_fn+0x80/0x80 kernel/irq/manage.c:1220 kthread+0xea/0x110 kernel/kthread.c:376 ? synchronize_irq+0x1a0/0x1a0 kernel/irq/manage.c:1287 ? kthread_associate_blkcg+0x80/0x80 kernel/kthread.c:331 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295 </TASK>

To prevent crash, validate rpp_info.seq before using.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd to before 973392ea942a8a2981724c2c230972c8eb3cb703Affected
  • e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd to before c0da84e308a0b0b51cd234168a9d84be4a3c5c50Affected
  • e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd to before 0fe36044267c3c70d0471d2109c34f805c975154Affected
  • e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd to before ef7fa19809b2d892d45da53f90ac698d13c367fdAffected
  • e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd to before b342dd13aedccb0dd27365f6cc63a262f42394ceAffected
  • e3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd to before 957eda596c7665f2966970fd1dcc35fe299b38e8Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.16Affected
  • before 5.16Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.114 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.16 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.6 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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