CVE-2026-43176
Description
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-43176
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-43176.html
Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebeaa3b24ba568ff8505165f954dba15cc53e4b3
Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f93d611b33a05bd03d6843c8efe8cb6a1992620
Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e8a88b5e8b3506d9c5e031a65ba65ce9a0683a3
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 6.19.6-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 6.19.6-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
| linux-kernel | affected | 6.18.16 |
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e8a88b5e8b3506d9c5e031a65ba65ce9a0683a3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f93d611b33a05bd03d6843c8efe8cb6a1992620
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebeaa3b24ba568ff8505165f954dba15cc53e4b3
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-43176.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-43176
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.