Bug 2373335 (CVE-2025-38013) - CVE-2025-38013 kernel: wifi: mac80211: Set n_channels after allocating struct cfg80211_scan_request
Summary: CVE-2025-38013 kernel: wifi: mac80211: Set n_channels after allocating struct...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38013
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-06-18 10:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-21 13:44 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 10:02:17 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-21 13:36:24 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061843-CVE-2025-38013-eef6@gregkh/T


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