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CVE-2026-99060

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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.

Severity
Not scored
CVSS score
Not available
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Published
2026-10-23 13:17:29.753000
Last modified
2026-10-23 13:17:29.753000
View original CVE JSON
{
  "id": "CVE-2026-99060",
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "published": "2026-10-23T13:17:29.753",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-23T13:17:29.753",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mt76: mt7603: initialize global station WCID\n\nmt7603 uses a driver-private global station WCID for frames that have\nneither a station nor a vif, including frames injected through a monitor\ninterface. Unlike the core global WCID initialized by\nmt76_register_device(), this WCID is published without ever being passed\nto mt76_wcid_init().\n\nSince commit 0335c034e726 (\"wifi: mt76: fix race condition related to\nchecking tx queue fill status\"), mt76_tx() queues every such frame on the\nWCID's tx_pending or tx_offchannel queue and links its tx_list. The first\ninjected frame therefore reaches __skb_queue_tail() with an uninitialized\nsk_buff_head and dereferences a NULL prev pointer.\n\nInitialize the WCID before publishing it.\n\nThe fix was tested on an MT7603 PCIe device. Three wildcard probe requests\nwere injected through a monitor interface. The hardware queue head and tail\nadvanced from 0 to 3 and a second radio captured the third request over the\nair. No oops or reset occurred. After restoring AP mode, a 150 MB transfer\nalso completed without a reset."
    }
  ],
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