CVE-2026-46092

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux24f5e38a13b5ae2b6105cda8bb47c19108e62a9a < eb101d2abdcccb514ca4fccd3b278dd8267374f6affected
LinuxLinux617339466fda09916c4b4151fa5e6a9c1fdae353affected
LinuxLinuxf21e8cb927fa9da49490b74ddda3856a828b82d6affected
LinuxLinux5.15.17 < 5.16affected
LinuxLinux5.16.3 < 5.17affected
LinuxLinux5.17affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.17unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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