Medium [CVE-2026-68195] drop TXRX_NOTIFY on non-mmio buses
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-68195.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7615: drop TXRX_NOTIFY on non-mmio buses PKT_TYPE_TXRX_NOTIFY is an mmio-only event, but mt7615_rx_check() and mt7615_queue_rx_skb() dispatch it to mt7615_mac_tx_free() on every bus. mt7615_mac_tx_free() cleans the DMA tx queues with mt76_queue_tx_cleanup(), which calls queue_ops->tx_cleanup().
Only the mmio queue ops implement that callback; on the mt7663 USB and SDIO buses it is NULL, so a TXRX_NOTIFY there calls a NULL pointer in the RX worker. Same defect as the mt7921 and mt7925 patches in this series.
Drop the event on non-mmio buses via mt76_is_mmio(), as in commit 5683e1488aa9 ("wifi: mt76: connac: do not check WED status for non-mmio devices"). A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's mt76 Wi-Fi driver, specifically affecting the mt7615 component.
This vulnerability occurs because a memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) specific event, PKT_TYPE_TXRX_NOTIFY, is incorrectly processed on non-MMIO buses such as USB and SDIO. When this event is dispatched, it attempts to call a null function pointer in the receive (RX) worker, which can be triggered by a local attacker.
This can lead to a system crash, resulting in a denial of service. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Weakness: CWE-476.
Affected versions
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Mitigation
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