Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-53097

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - wifi: mt76: mt7996: fix use-after-free bugs in mt7996macdumpwork When the mt7996 pci chip is detaching, the mt7996crashdata is released in...

CVE-2026-53097

CVE-2026-53097 describes a use-after-free in the Linux kernel’s mt76 mt7996 driver. During PCI device removal, crash_data is freed in mt7996_coredump_unregister() while a pending/delayed work item (dump_work) may still reference it, causing UAF in mt7996_mac_dump_work(). The fix cancels pending o...