wifi: mt76: mt7996: hold dev->mt76.mutex while disabling tx worker in SER
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: hold dev->mt76.mutex while disabling tx worker in SER mt7996_mac_reset_work() parked the tx worker and disabled the RX/TX NAPIs before taking dev->mt76.mutex. mt76_worker_disable()/_enable() are plain kthread park/unpark, not refcounted, and __mt76_set_channel() toggles the same worker and the MT76_RESET bit under the mutex. An L1 SER racing a channel switch could therefore have the worker unparked and MT76_RESET cleared while the reset path resets the DMA rings, corrupting descriptors or tokens. Take the mutex before disabling the worker, as mt7915 does.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.52, 7.2.6, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-90367
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rjqr-mg4v-422g
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-20 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-20 CVSS score added · Red Hat
- 2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@69f23622533a4f054b5c8fdb226c3319ffa017b6 +1 · CNA
- 2026-10-21 2 new references · CNA
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc4f4389f439e808185778d298da36976d13d415
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69f23622533a4f054b5c8fdb226c3319ffa017b6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/906ad486ba5c4933d82e1ebe0685656390a48450
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/594c4b7f89f9ea75dc9c50b5e4c4296db4a3d701
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6190db312b8230813f529f014b26247c6d9800d0
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Sources
- CVE-2026-90367 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-90367 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-rjqr-mg4v-422g · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-90367 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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