CVE-2025-21909
Published: Apr 1, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: nl80211: reject cooked mode if it is set along with other flags It is possible to set both MONITOR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES and MONITOR_FLAG_ACTIVE flags simultaneously on the same monitor interface from the userspace. This causes a sub-interface to be created with no IEEE80211_SDATA_IN_DRIVER bit set because the monitor interface is in the cooked state and it takes precedence over all other states. When the interface is then being deleted the kernel calls WARN_ONCE() from check_sdata_in_driver() because of missing that bit. Fix this by rejecting MONITOR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES if it is set along with other flags. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 66f7ac50ed7cc5c19a62bc97e8f6e7891004a03a - < 5ea856d93794c4afa5542defd8c61f2708dc245aaffected 66f7ac50ed7cc5c19a62bc97e8f6e7891004a03a - < 351eb7ac53ff1cd94d893c0c4534ced2f36ae7d7affected 66f7ac50ed7cc5c19a62bc97e8f6e7891004a03a - < cd1bdcb77fdc03c253137e55bae10551b3481461affected 66f7ac50ed7cc5c19a62bc97e8f6e7891004a03a - < 236f41ca728f23210b31ed2d1d8a6df575a4b2d6affected 66f7ac50ed7cc5c19a62bc97e8f6e7891004a03a - < ebebbb0eded2ed9a1abfa31962f6fb699e6abce7+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.26unaffected 0 - < 2.6.26unaffected 5.4.291 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.235 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.179 - <= 5.15.*+5 more versions |
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