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CVE-2025-38509

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CVE-2025-38509

Published: Aug 16, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: reject VHT opmode for unsupported channel widths VHT operating mode notifications are not defined for channel widths below 20 MHz. In particular, 5 MHz and 10 MHz are not valid under the VHT specification and must be rejected. Without this check, malformed notifications using these widths may reach ieee80211_chan_width_to_rx_bw(), leading to a WARN_ON due to invalid input. This issue was reported by syzbot. Reject these unsupported widths early in sta_link_apply_parameters() when opmode_notif is used. The accepted set includes 20, 40, 80, 160, and 80+80 MHz, which are valid for VHT. While 320 MHz is not defined for VHT, it is allowed to avoid rejecting HE or EHT clients that may still send a VHT opmode notification.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
751e7489c1d74b94ffffbed619d8fd724eeff4ee - < 18eca59a04500b68a90e0c5c873f97c9d1ea2bfa
affected
751e7489c1d74b94ffffbed619d8fd724eeff4ee - < 58fcb1b4287ce38850402bb2bb16d09bf77b91d9

Linux

Linux

affected
6.13
unaffected
0 - < 6.13
unaffected
6.15.7 - <= 6.15.*
unaffected
6.16 - <= *

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