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FKIE_CVE-2026-74323

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-15 06:22 - Updated: 2026-08-17 06:19

Severity

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: Fix possible token leak in mt7996_tx_prepare_skb() If link_conf or link_sta lookup fails in mt7996_tx_prepare_skb routine, mt7996 driver leaks an already allocated tx token. Fix the issue releasing the token in case of error.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06e65d6cf80490bc0457d339595d1ed5a89e8899
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/831074096d0450308357271fc0ffd3f600a2487e
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa0e9aa92a7bc97fc42014c5efaaf1278fa92723

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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            "drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mac.c",
            "drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/tx.c"
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CVE-2026-74323 (GCVE-0-2026-74323)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:58 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:45

Title

wifi: mt76: mt7996: Fix possible token leak in mt7996_tx_prepare_skb()

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06e65d6cf80490bc0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa0e9aa92a7bc97fc…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/831074096d0450308…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 7ef0c7ad735b0c38140259519a3f165bee2b857c , < 06e65d6cf80490bc0457d339595d1ed5a89e8899 (git) Affected: 7ef0c7ad735b0c38140259519a3f165bee2b857c , < fa0e9aa92a7bc97fc42014c5efaaf1278fa92723 (git) Affected: 7ef0c7ad735b0c38140259519a3f165bee2b857c , < 831074096d0450308357271fc0ffd3f600a2487e (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.18 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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