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GHSA-PXQ5-V3XQ-VVP3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-22 18:31 – Updated: 2025-11-26 18:31

Details

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

wifi: rtw89: mcc: prevent shift wrapping in rtw89_core_mlsr_switch()

The "link_id" value comes from the user via debugfs. If it's larger than BITS_PER_LONG then that would result in shift wrapping and potentially an out of bounds access later. In fact, we can limit it to IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS (15).

Fortunately, only root can write to debugfs files so the security impact is minimal.

Severity

7.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

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    "CVE-2025-38657"
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  "modified": "2025-11-26T18:31:01Z",
  "published": "2025-08-22T18:31:22Z",
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CVE-2025-38657 (GCVE-0-2025-38657)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-22 16:01 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:03

Title

wifi: rtw89: mcc: prevent shift wrapping in rtw89_core_mlsr_switch()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: mcc: prevent shift wrapping in rtw89_core_mlsr_switch() The "link_id" value comes from the user via debugfs. If it's larger than BITS_PER_LONG then that would result in shift wrapping and potentially an out of bounds access later. In fact, we can limit it to IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS (15). Fortunately, only root can write to debugfs files so the security impact is minimal.

Severity

7.3 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/417cfa9cc44fbe6bc…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53cf488927a0f7996…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 9dd85e739ce0765f022014c3e0713e1007d7ef60 , < 417cfa9cc44fbe6bceab786f9a4ee5a210f1288e (git) Affected: 9dd85e739ce0765f022014c3e0713e1007d7ef60 , < 53cf488927a0f79968f9c03c4d1e00d2a79731c3 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver) Unaffected: 6.16.1 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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