CVE-2026-23373 (GCVE-0-2026-23373)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-25 10:27 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:05
VLAI
Title
wifi: rsi: Don't default to -EOPNOTSUPP in rsi_mac80211_config
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rsi: Don't default to -EOPNOTSUPP in rsi_mac80211_config This triggers a WARN_ON in ieee80211_hw_conf_init and isn't the expected behavior from the driver - other drivers default to 0 too.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 0a44dfc070749514b804ccac0b1fd38718f7daa1 , < b64fbd718cf42feb75502bf25d0d16eb671aea45 (git)
Affected: 0a44dfc070749514b804ccac0b1fd38718f7daa1 , < 95ed07644b2c6119f706484b87b7f43e6133f3b5 (git)
Affected: 0a44dfc070749514b804ccac0b1fd38718f7daa1 , < 67d10e8db57ffc21f8177e9e884bbc743fdc0bae (git)
Affected: 0a44dfc070749514b804ccac0b1fd38718f7daa1 , < d973b1039ccde6b241b438d53297edce4de45b5c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.77 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.17 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.7 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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