214 lines
11 KiB
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214 lines
11 KiB
JSON
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"cveId": "CVE-2025-39957",
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"state": "PUBLISHED",
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"assignerShortName": "Linux",
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"dateReserved": "2025-04-16T07:20:57.149Z",
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"datePublished": "2025-10-09T09:47:34.933Z",
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"dateUpdated": "2026-10-15T22:02:33.942Z"
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"lang": "en",
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: increase scan_ies_len for S1G\n\nCurrently the S1G capability element is not taken into account\nfor the scan_ies_len, which leads to a buffer length validation\nfailure in ieee80211_prep_hw_scan() and subsequent WARN in\n__ieee80211_start_scan(). This prevents hw scanning from functioning.\nTo fix ensure we accommodate for the S1G capability length."
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"value": "AV:L - The failure is reached by initiating a scan on the local host — `nl80211_trigger_scan` over netlink (or an internal mac80211/mlme scan) — not by processing any received frame. No remote or adjacent peer input is involved in triggering the undersized-buffer condition.\nAC:L - The miscalculation is deterministic: on any S1G-capable hardware doing a hardware scan, `ieee80211_build_preq_ies()` always overruns the `scan_ies_len` budget and fails, firing the WARN and passing an uninitialized request to the driver every single time. No race, timing, or memory-layout condition is required.\nPR:L - `NL80211_CMD_TRIGGER_SCAN` is gated by `GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM`, i.e. `ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)`, which is the user-namespace-aware check and therefore reachable by a low-privileged local user rather than requiring real root; in practice scans are also driven continuously by wpa_supplicant/NetworkManager on behalf of ordinary desktop users.\nUI:N - No victim action is needed — a scan request alone triggers the path, and on affected hardware normal automatic scanning at boot or after connection loss hits it with no user involvement at all.\nS:U - The uninitialized-value use and the WARN both occur within the kernel's own security authority in net/mac80211 and the wireless driver; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - Because `ieee80211_prep_hw_scan()` returns before assigning `req.ie_len`/`req.mac_addr`/`req.mac_addr_mask` yet `__ieee80211_start_scan()` still calls `drv_hw_scan()`, drivers copy `req->ie_len` bytes (uninitialized kmalloc heap value, effectively unbounded) out of the IE buffer into a probe request that is transmitted over the air, disclosing arbitrary adjacent kernel heap memory.\nI:N - All IE emission is bounds-checked via `skb_tailroom()`/`end - pos` guards, so no out-of-bounds write or kernel data modification occurs; the uninitialized length yields only reads.\nA:H - `WARN_ON(!ieee80211_prep_hw_scan())` fires on every scan attempt, which is a kernel panic on the many hardened/embedded builds running `panic_on_warn`, and the subsequent unbounded read driven by the uninitialized `ie_len` can fault or trigger an enormous allocation; hardware scanning is rendered permanently non-functional."
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}
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]
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