CVE-2026-43176

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: pci: validate release report content before using for RTL8922DE The commit 957eda596c76 ("wifi: rtw89: pci: validate sequence number of TX release report") does validation on existing chips, which somehow a release report of SKB becomes malformed. As no clear cause found, add rules ahead for RTL8922DE to avoid crash if it happens.

CVSS 3.1

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

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 15% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-20

Published

2026-05-06

Modified

2026-10-19

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-21

Affected

• linux:linux_kernel

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e8a88b5e8b3506d9c5e031a65ba65ce9a0683a3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f93d611b33a05bd03d6843c8efe8cb6a1992620
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebeaa3b24ba568ff8505165f954dba15cc53e4b3

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