Vulnerability · Published Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2026-90373wifi: mt76: mt7915: clear wcid mask under mutex after RCU pointer clear

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In plain English

A security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 10% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS )–Not rated
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 90.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7915: clear wcid mask under mutex after RCU pointer clear mt7915_remove_interface() cleared the wcid mask bit with no lock held and before clearing the RCU wcid pointer. The mask is a non-atomic RMW shared with the allocators, which all run under dev->mt76.mutex; on DBDC the two wiphys share one mt76_dev, so this raced add_interface/sta_add on the other band and could leak or double-hand-out a wcid. Clearing the bit before the RCU pointer also let a concurrent allocation reuse the index and publish its wcid, which the subsequent NULL assignment then wiped. Move the clear into the existing mutex section, after the RCU pointer is cleared.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:13linux6.12.111-1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-90373
Debian:14linux7.2.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-90373
Debian:12linux-6.126.12.111-1~deb12u1DEBIAN-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux7.0.0-42.42UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-aws7.0.0-1016.17UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws-7.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-azureno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-7.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-7.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-gcp7.0.0-1016.18UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-7.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-gkeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-7.07.0.0-42.42~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-ibm7.0.0-1017.17UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-7.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-bosno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-oem-7.07.0.0-1017.17UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-oracle7.0.0-1015.16UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle-7.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-raspino fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlinux-riscv7.0.0-42.42.1UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-7.07.0.0-42.42.1~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2026-90373

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux f3049b88b2b32326df97461813ae73e8bbc296fc – before 5dce25f1d609ba991a9c22c27be586c92f03ed77f3049b88b2b32326df97461813ae73e8bbc296fc – before b4a41a47a67c788e6b0625fa517ec8872e99bb6cf3049b88b2b32326df97461813ae73e8bbc296fc – before a97b2b942d2f8f12fbd6a7caafc735d1ad115e6bf3049b88b2b32326df97461813ae73e8bbc296fc – before 6486e11a6e2f679597af2d5bb48c3b07a2b2a7bab7c8e22dfddacc1b08dbf44f5be2c66305d757bca582b1d54313dcdc96e7d8e1f49495dd71ddaf3e6.1.191 – before 6.26.6.160 – before 6.7
Linux Linux 6.12

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