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CVE-2026-90367

kernel: wifi: mt76: mt7996: hold dev->mt76.mutex while disabling tx worker in SER

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 17, 2026

Updated · October 20, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's mt7996 Wi-Fi driver. The driver fails to properly hold a mutex, which is a mechanism to prevent simultaneous access to shared resources, when disabling a transmit worker during System Error Recovery (SER). This oversight creates a race condition where a concurrent channel switch operation can lead to the corruption of data transfer descriptors or tokens. The most important consequence is potential system instability or a denial of service, where the system becomes unresponsive or crashes.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-820 · Missing Synchronization