CVE-2026-90380 wifi: mt76: mt792x: fix use-after-free in mt76_rx_poll_complete
A race condition in the Linux kernel mt76 WiFi driver causes a use-after-free, potentially leading to system crashes or arbitrary code execution.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-90380?
CVE-2026-90380 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 17 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mt76: mt792x: fix use-after-free in mt76_rx_poll_complete
A use-after-free issue occurs in mt76_rx_poll_complete due to a race condition. The STA has already been removed, but the rx_status still had a pointer to the wcid in the STA.
Set the links' wcid pointers to be NULL for a MLD in mt7925_sta_pre_rcu_remove()
BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in mt76_rx_poll_complete+0x280/0x470 Call trace: dump_backtrace+0xec/0x128 show_stack+0x18/0x28 dump_stack_lvl+0x40/0xc8 print_report+0x1b8/0x710 kasan_report+0xe0/0x144 do_bad_area+0x120/0x260 do_tag_check_fault+0x20/0x34 do_mem_abort+0x54/0xa8 el1_abort+0x3c/0x5c el1h_64_sync_handler+0x40/0xcc el1h_64_sync+0x7c/0x80 mt76_rx_poll_complete+0x280/0x470 mt76_dma_rx_poll+0x114/0x51c mt792x_poll_rx+0x60/0xf8 napi_threaded_poll_loop+0xe0/0x450 napi_threaded_poll+0x80/0x9c kthread+0x11c/0x158 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-90380?
How do I fix CVE-2026-90380?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2026-90380 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-90380 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2026-90380, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-90380, GHSA-64jx-xh98-9hg9, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90380.