5.5

CVE-2026-46092

wifi: rtw88: check for PCI upstream bridge existence

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.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.15.17 < 5.16
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.16.3 < 7.1
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.12% 0.02
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb101d2abdcccb514ca4fccd3b278dd8267374f6
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