Kernel-memory corruption via published WCID reinitialization
Published Jul 19, 2026 · Updated Jul 19, 2026
Race condition in the mt76 Wi-Fi driver in Linux Kernel allows physically proximate attackers to corrupt kernel memory through Wi-Fi traffic. mt76_sta_add reinitializes wcid->poll_list after mt7925_mac_sta_add publishes the WCID, allowing concurrent RX polling to turn the list link into a self-reference. The affected system must use the MT7925 driver path during station reauthentication; the published failure is kernel list corruption and service interruption.
Summary
What happened
Race condition in the mt76 Wi-Fi driver in Linux Kernel allows physically proximate attackers to corrupt kernel memory through Wi-Fi traffic. mt76_sta_add reinitializes wcid->poll_list after mt7925_mac_sta_add publishes the WCID, allowing concurrent RX polling to turn the list link into a self-reference. The affected system must use the MT7925 driver path during station reauthentication; the published failure is kernel list corruption and service interruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-63832
- Published
- Jul 19, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 19, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux Kernel
- Classifications
- Unavailable
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
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- Jul 19, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 19, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <6.18.38
- Affected versionversion=0 <7.1.3
- Affected versionversion=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <20b126920a259df4d7dcae19fcfe2c57a74d6b2e
- Affected versionversion=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <3c499851753a24d2e148d4e9ca51764c0c51554e
- Affected versionversion=1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 <55e014aaec650ede08b693ba59c8d0443f13f11c
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