CVE-2026-53317 PUBLISHED

wifi: mt76: mt7921: Place upper limit on station AID

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 26.06.2026 Updated: 26.06.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mt76: mt7921: Place upper limit on station AID

Any station configured with an AID over 20 causes a firmware crash. This situation occurred in our testing using an AP interface on 7922 hardware, with a modified hostapd, sourced from Mediatek's OpenWRT feeds.

In stock hostapd, station AIDs begin counting at 1, and this configuration is prevented with an upper limit on associated stations. However, the modified hostapd began allocation at 65, which caused the firmware to crash. This fix does not allow these AIDs to work, but will prevent the firmware crash.

This crash was only seen on IFTYPE_AP interfaces, and the fix does not appear to have an effect on IFTYPE_STATION behavior.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5c14a5f944b91371961548b1907802f74a4d2e5c to 6dbe70f9ef14d8ac1c24bf19fd9510978a3ab952 (excl.)
  • affected from 5c14a5f944b91371961548b1907802f74a4d2e5c to 35835ff71e6e618155578b8e3905597edd5f601c (excl.)
  • affected from 5c14a5f944b91371961548b1907802f74a4d2e5c to 1a4b802afe15c5b33b2dcb37a594aba2fa215d52 (excl.)
  • affected from 5c14a5f944b91371961548b1907802f74a4d2e5c to 4d0bf21e3e20619d51d06c0c36207aabab8b712c (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.91 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.33 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.10 to 7.0.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1 to * (incl.)

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