CVE-2025-38509

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.13-6.15.7 - Denial of Service via Malformed VHT OpMode Notification

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 2.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.7linux
Linux/Linux < 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.15.7 - 6.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.16
Linux/Linux 751e7489c1d74b94ffffbed619d8fd724eeff4ee - 18eca59a04500b68a90e0c5c873f97c9d1ea2bfa
Linux/Linux 751e7489c1d74b94ffffbed619d8fd724eeff4ee - 58fcb1b4287ce38850402bb2bb16d09bf77b91d9
linux/linux_kernel 6.16 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.13 - 6.15.7
Published Aug 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026