vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2025-38013: kernel: wifi: mac80211: Set n_channels after allocating struct cfg80211_scan_request (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jan 27, 2026

Description

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.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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