CVE-2025-39849 (GCVE-0-2025-39849)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-19 15:26 – Updated: 2026-05-23 16:00
VLAI
Title
wifi: cfg80211: sme: cap SSID length in __cfg80211_connect_result()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: sme: cap SSID length in __cfg80211_connect_result() If the ssid->datalen is more than IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN (32) it would lead to memory corruption so add some bounds checking.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: dd43f8f90206054e7da7593de0a334fb2cd0ea88 , < 8e751d46336205abc259ed3990e850a9843fb649 (git)
Affected: c38c701851011c94ce3be1ccb3593678d2933fd8 , < e472f59d02c82b511bc43a3f96d62ed08bf4537f (git)
Affected: c38c701851011c94ce3be1ccb3593678d2933fd8 , < 31229145e6ba5ace3e9391113376fa05b7831ede (git)
Affected: c38c701851011c94ce3be1ccb3593678d2933fd8 , < 5cb7cab7adf9b1e6a99e2081b0e30e9e59d07523 (git)
Affected: c38c701851011c94ce3be1ccb3593678d2933fd8 , < 62b635dcd69c4fde7ce1de4992d71420a37e51e3 (git)
Affected: bf3c348c5fdcf00a7eeed04a1b83e454d2dca2e5 (git)
Affected: 6.1.16 , < 6.1.151 (semver)
Affected: 6.2.3 , < 6.3 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.151 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.105 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.46 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.6 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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