UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53071

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: do not run mt76unregisterdevice on unregistered hw Trying to probe a mt7921e pci card without firmware results in a successful probe where ieee80211registerhw hasn't been called. When removing the driver,...

CVE-2023-53071

CVE-2023-53071 affects the Linux kernel WiFi driver mt76. The root cause was calling ieee80211_unregister_hw unconditionally when probing a mt7921e PCI card without firmware, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference on driver removal. The fix ensures mt76_unregister_device is invoked only f...