CVE-2026-43176

wifi: rtw89: pci: validate release report content before using for RTL8922DE

CVSS 8.8 HIGHEPSS 0.3%

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 8.8EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

06 May 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: pci: validate release report content before using for RTL8922DE The commit 957eda596c76 ("wifi: rtw89: pci: validate sequence number of TX release report") does validation on existing chips, which somehow a release report of SKB becomes malformed. As no clear cause found, add rules ahead for RTL8922DE to avoid crash if it happens.

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Linux · Linux

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References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e8a88b5e8b3506d9c5e031a65ba65ce9a0683a3 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f93d611b33a05bd03d6843c8efe8cb6a1992620 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebeaa3b24ba568ff8505165f954dba15cc53e4b3