Bug 2391060 (CVE-2025-38509) - CVE-2025-38509 kernel: wifi: mac80211: reject VHT opmode for unsupported channel widths
Summary: CVE-2025-38509 kernel: wifi: mac80211: reject VHT opmode for unsupported chan...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38509
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-08-26 15:09 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-08-27 15:05 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-26 15:09:11 UTC
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.


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