Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 25, 2026

CVE-2026-97541

Description

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

wifi: ath9k_htc: don't store usb_device_id

usb_device_id is not guaranteed to live longer than probe due to presence of dynamic ID. All information apart from driver_data can be easily retrieved from usb_device, so just store driver_data.

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Affected products

Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy

Patches

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/14d2ac442d660e112efc0ce87ad10085013ed2b1nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e70a6785bd02cf9ef7fd21ebccf46a8ba23014envd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d5e396578097d02e859798207db41ed4b831f50nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/c34aa59950597e3360e9cef9d08cdf4edb30ad4dnvd

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