CVE-2025-38013

wifi: mac80211: Set n_channels after allocating struct cfg80211_scan_request

published June 18, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

wifi: mac80211: Set n_channels after allocating struct cfg80211_scan_request

Make sure that n_channels is set after allocating the

struct cfg80211_registered_device::int_scan_req member. Seen with

syzkaller:

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in net/mac80211/scan.c:1208:5

index 0 is out of range for type 'struct ieee80211_channel *[] __counted_by(n_channels)' (aka 'struct ieee80211_channel *[]')

This was missed in the initial conversions because I failed to locate

the allocation likely due to the "sizeof(void *)" not matching the

"channels" array type.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00202 · 9.7th percentile
Published
2025-06-18T09:28Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 09:28Z
    wifi: mac80211: Set n_channels after allocating struct cfg80211_scan_request
    cvelistv5