CVE-2026-90371 (GCVE-0-2026-90371)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-17 16:09 – Updated: 2026-09-18 17:54
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Title
wifi: mt76: fix RXDMAD_C buffer recycling race
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: fix RXDMAD_C buffer recycling race The RXDMAD_C buffers come from the RRO data queues' page pools, which are bound to a different NAPI, so the direct page-pool recycle used here could race the owning NAPI; take the non-direct path as is already done for WED RX queues.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e50d4d710efd2dbc46965e9608bbb502bcfc5c99 , < 7ac05ed3a50e511c93f8506e555709a208dfce0a (git)
Affected: e50d4d710efd2dbc46965e9608bbb502bcfc5c99 , < a273dc3b86a7d983d643827d3d3c795d55d8f632 (git)
Affected: e50d4d710efd2dbc46965e9608bbb502bcfc5c99 , < e1f97c10a4ec2b9db69a134b757304399ca903ce (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.52 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.6 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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