Bug 2440641 (CVE-2025-71227) - CVE-2025-71227 kernel: wifi: mac80211: don't WARN for connections on invalid channels
Summary: CVE-2025-71227 kernel: wifi: mac80211: don't WARN for connections on invalid ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-71227
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-02-18 15:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-02-20 20:09 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-02-18 15:03:24 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: don't WARN for connections on invalid channels

It's not clear (to me) how exactly syzbot managed to hit this,
but it seems conceivable that e.g. regulatory changed and has
disabled a channel between scanning (channel is checked to be
usable by cfg80211_get_ies_channel_number) and connecting on
the channel later.

With one scenario that isn't covered elsewhere described above,
the warning isn't good, replace it with a (more informative)
error message.


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