ghsa-w5qx-5mqj-mr45
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-06-18 12:30
Modified
2025-06-18 12:30
Details

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.

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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-38013"
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  "id": "GHSA-w5qx-5mqj-mr45",
  "modified": "2025-06-18T12:30:31Z",
  "published": "2025-06-18T12:30:31Z",
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