Bug 2400605 (CVE-2025-39891) - CVE-2025-39891 kernel: wifi: mwifiex: Initialize the chan_stats array to zero
Summary: CVE-2025-39891 kernel: wifi: mwifiex: Initialize the chan_stats array to zero
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-39891
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-01 08:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-03 01:38 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 08:02:02 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mwifiex: Initialize the chan_stats array to zero

The adapter->chan_stats[] array is initialized in
mwifiex_init_channel_scan_gap() with vmalloc(), which doesn't zero out
memory.  The array is filled in mwifiex_update_chan_statistics()
and then the user can query the data in mwifiex_cfg80211_dump_survey().

There are two potential issues here.  What if the user calls
mwifiex_cfg80211_dump_survey() before the data has been filled in.
Also the mwifiex_update_chan_statistics() function doesn't necessarily
initialize the whole array.  Since the array was not initialized at
the start that could result in an information leak.

Also this array is pretty small.  It's a maximum of 900 bytes so it's
more appropriate to use kcalloc() instead vmalloc().


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