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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74411" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:59:18.696Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:44.122Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74411" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74411.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74411" title: "wifi: rtw89: Correct data type for scan index to avoid infinite loop" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: rtw89: Correct data type for scan index to avoid infinite loop\n\nA kernel soft lockup was observed during Wi-Fi scanning on the 6GHz band.\nThe CPU becomes stuck in rtw89_hw_scan_add_chan_ax for over 20 seconds,\nleading to a system panic.\n\nRIP points to 0f b6 c3 (movzbl %bl, %eax), which zero-extends\nthe low 8 bits of RBX into RAX.\nRBX (the counter i) has reached a huge value: 0x137466a1.\n\n watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 26s! [kworker/u16:4:6124]\n Workqueue: events_unbound cfg80211_wiphy_work [cfg80211]\n RIP: 0010:rtw89_hw_scan_add_chan_ax+0xb3/0x6e0 [rtw89_core]\n Code: a0 48 89 45 a8 44 89 6d 9c 44 89 75 98 eb 29 66 66 2e 0f 1f\n 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 83 c3 01\n \u003c0f\u003e b6 c3 41 3b 44 24 74 0f 83 0b 02 00 00 0f b6 c3 48 8d 14 80 49\n RSP: 0018:ffffcb48cbaa39f8 EFLAGS: 00000202\n RAX: 0000000000000005 RBX: 00000000137466a1 RCX: 0000000000000000\n RDX: ffff89ffc9d851a8 RSI: 0000000000004f0d RDI: 0000000096af0130\n RBP: ffffcb48cbaa3a60 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8a00b7502080\n R10: ffff8a00b75ff600 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff89ffc7553870\n R13: ffff8a00b7ac8f19 R14: ffff8a00b75020d8 R15: ffff89ffc3d54d80\n FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8a014f962000(0000)\n knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 00007558d7f9f4c4 CR3: 0000000178040001 CR4: 00000000001706f0\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n rtw89_hw_scan_prep_chan_list_ax+0x8a/0x400 [rtw89_core]\n rtw89_hw_scan_start+0x546/0x8a0 [rtw89_core]\n ? rtw89_fw_h2c_default_cmac_tbl+0x13c/0x1f0 [rtw89_core]\n rtw89_ops_hw_scan+0xae/0x120 [rtw89_core]\n drv_hw_scan+0xbb/0x180 [mac80211]\n __ieee80211_start_scan+0x2fc/0x750 [mac80211]\n ieee80211_request_scan+0xe/0x20 [mac80211]\n ieee80211_scan+0x123/0x190 [mac80211]\n rdev_scan+0x40/0x110 [cfg80211]\n cfg80211_scan_6ghz+0x5a1/0xa30 [cfg80211]\n\nBy objdump with source:\n\n\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c req-\u003en_6ghz_params; i++) {\n 5fbc0:\t83 c3 01 \tadd $0x1,%ebx --\u003e i++\n 5fbc3:\t0f b6 c3 \tmovzbl %bl,%eax --\u003e get counter\n fbc6:\t41 3b 44 24 74 \tcmp 0x74(%r12),%eax\n\n * RBX: 00000000137466a1 -\u003e %bl = a1 -\u003e EAX = 000000a1 (161)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c6aa9a9c47252ac7b07ed6d10459027e2f2a2de0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"966fbed4b4463fbcb49c5becf3f86eae776861bd"},{"version":"c6aa9a9c47252ac7b07ed6d10459027e2f2a2de0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"05d46e30303275f21f13c951166d39c85df976d4"},{"version":"c6aa9a9c47252ac7b07ed6d10459027e2f2a2de0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a1ab5fdcae896e20ca6d68fa0fbd2816cb7471f"},{"version":"c6aa9a9c47252ac7b07ed6d10459027e2f2a2de0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"140fa699cfd0e18ab2f1497acd951fb3548610f5"},{"version":"c6aa9a9c47252ac7b07ed6d10459027e2f2a2de0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"08fdcb529df6df3562dd2b0035f88dd5be8b3c68"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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