CVE-2025-21909

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Race Condition in WiFi Monitor Interface Flag Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 3.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (27)
linux/Kernel 2.6.26 - 5.4.291linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.179linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.131linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.235linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.7linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.83linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.19linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.26
Linux/Linux 2.6.26
Linux/Linux 5.10.235 - 5.10.*
... and 17 more
Published Apr 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026