CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-46092

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.12%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability was found in the rtw88 WiFi driver. The lack of checking for the existence of a PCI upstream bridge before using it can cause a crash during device initialization when the card is directly connected to the root bus. This primarily affects 8821CE cards in non-standard hardware configurations.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves a potential system hang or kernel crash during driver initialization for the WiFi card, which may render the device unusable and require a manual reboot. The issue only occurs in specific PCI topologies but can be difficult to diagnose.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit addressing the issue). Administrators should monitor distributions for backports of the patch to stable kernel versions.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: check for PCI upstream bridge existence pci_upstream_bridge() returns NULL if the device is on a root bus. If 8821CE is installed in the system with such a PCI topology, the probing routine will crash. This has probably been unnoticed as 8821CE is mostly supplied in laptops where there is a PCI-to-PCI bridge located upstream from the device. However the card might be installed on a system with different configuration. Check if the bridge does exist for the specific workaround to be applied. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Svace static analysis tool.

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