CVE-2026-99060
wifi: mt76: mt7603: initialize global station WCID
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 23, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 23, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 25, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mt76: mt7603: initialize global station WCID
mt7603 uses a driver-private global station WCID for frames that have neither a station nor a vif, including frames injected through a monitor interface. Unlike the core global WCID initialized by mt76_register_device(), this WCID is published without ever being passed to mt76_wcid_init().
Since commit 0335c034e726 ("wifi: mt76: fix race condition related to checking tx queue fill status"), mt76_tx() queues every such frame on the WCID's tx_pending or tx_offchannel queue and links its tx_list. The first injected frame therefore reaches __skb_queue_tail() with an uninitialized sk_buff_head and dereferences a NULL prev pointer.
Initialize the WCID before publishing it.
The fix was tested on an MT7603 PCIe device. Three wildcard probe requests were injected through a monitor interface. The hardware queue head and tail advanced from 0 to 3 and a second radio captured the third request over the air. No oops or reset occurred. After restoring AP mode, a 150 MB transfer also completed without a reset.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99b8bd6323e6fc69615af828522878b7acb77bff
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e454ec553996f21085657c96c8a605e2d89a81a6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd117d17e8aa2e89f857fb708e5b770709fb81cb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19d6fa087dcf242223645828b8282d4040bad168
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/456de496b53ae73e6e3020fec815dbdc88aa7c07
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