CVE-2026-97541 (GCVE-0-2026-97541)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-25 10:21 – Updated: 2026-10-19 09:09
VLAI
Title
wifi: ath9k_htc: don't store usb_device_id
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k_htc: don't store usb_device_id usb_device_id is not guaranteed to live longer than probe due to presence of dynamic ID. All information apart from driver_data can be easily retrieved from usb_device, so just store driver_data.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6996 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 0ed7b93e307fd02188a33b80897069d3acc76485 , < 664ef8ce390fa6575c3a3dc003f9ccdd7cca9932 (git)
Affected: 0ed7b93e307fd02188a33b80897069d3acc76485 , < 8cb99d4a715939b9fcea3341b08eaf4b9e0cc44b (git)
Affected: 0ed7b93e307fd02188a33b80897069d3acc76485 , < 8e70a6785bd02cf9ef7fd21ebccf46a8ba23014e (git)
Affected: 0ed7b93e307fd02188a33b80897069d3acc76485 , < 9d5e396578097d02e859798207db41ed4b831f50 (git)
Affected: 0ed7b93e307fd02188a33b80897069d3acc76485 , < c34aa59950597e3360e9cef9d08cdf4edb30ad4d (git)
Affected: 0ed7b93e307fd02188a33b80897069d3acc76485 , < 14d2ac442d660e112efc0ce87ad10085013ed2b1 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.189 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.158 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.111 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.53 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.7 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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