CVE-2026-90403 (GCVE-0-2026-90403)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-17 16:09
Modified
2026-10-19 09:03
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtlwifi: pci: fix error path in rtl_pci_probe() In the last error path in rtl_pci_probe(), the cleanup functions are skipped due to a wrong goto label. Moreover, the successful call to rtl_init_rfkill(), ieee80211_register_hw(), rtl_debug_add_one() have to be reverted. Fix this issue by updating the labels and adding the relevant cleanup functions to the last error path.
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Linux Linux Version: 0c8173385e549f95cd80c3fff5aab87b4f881d8d
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