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High severity Unreviewed Published May 6, 2026 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 11, 2026

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: rtw89: pci: validate sequence number of TX release report

Hardware rarely reports abnormal sequence number in TX release report,
which will access out-of-bounds of wd_ring->pages array, causing NULL
pointer dereference.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 1 PID: 1085 Comm: irq/129-rtw89_p Tainted: G S U
6.1.145-17510-g2f3369c91536 #1 (HASH:69e8 1)
Call Trace:

rtw89_pci_release_tx+0x18f/0x300 [rtw89_pci (HASH:4c83 2)]
rtw89_pci_napi_poll+0xc2/0x190 [rtw89_pci (HASH:4c83 2)]
net_rx_action+0xfc/0x460 net/core/dev.c:6578 net/core/dev.c:6645 net/core/dev.c:6759
handle_softirqs+0xbe/0x290 kernel/softirq.c:601
? rtw89_pci_interrupt_threadfn+0xc5/0x350 [rtw89_pci (HASH:4c83 2)]
__local_bh_enable_ip+0xeb/0x120 kernel/softirq.c:499 kernel/softirq.c:423


rtw89_pci_interrupt_threadfn+0xf8/0x350 [rtw89_pci (HASH:4c83 2)]
? irq_thread+0xa7/0x340 kernel/irq/manage.c:0
irq_thread+0x177/0x340 kernel/irq/manage.c:1205 kernel/irq/manage.c:1314
? thaw_kernel_threads+0xb0/0xb0 kernel/irq/manage.c:1202
? irq_forced_thread_fn+0x80/0x80 kernel/irq/manage.c:1220
kthread+0xea/0x110 kernel/kthread.c:376
? synchronize_irq+0x1a0/0x1a0 kernel/irq/manage.c:1287
? kthread_associate_blkcg+0x80/0x80 kernel/kthread.c:331
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

To prevent crash, validate rpp_info.seq before using.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 6, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 6, 2026
Last updated May 11, 2026

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Adjacent
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(7th percentile)

Weaknesses

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2026-43213

GHSA ID

GHSA-g35v-pp28-72vc

Source code

No known source code

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