CVE-2025-38657

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: rtw89: mcc: prevent shift wrapping in rtw89_core_mlsr_switch()

The "link_id" value comes from the user via debugfs. If it's larger than BITS_PER_LONG then that would result in shift wrapping and potentially an out of bounds access later. In fact, we can limit it to IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS (15).

Fortunately, only root can write to debugfs files so the security impact is minimal.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux9dd85e739ce0765f022014c3e0713e1007d7ef60 < 417cfa9cc44fbe6bceab786f9a4ee5a210f1288eaffected
LinuxLinux9dd85e739ce0765f022014c3e0713e1007d7ef60 < 53cf488927a0f79968f9c03c4d1e00d2a79731c3affected
LinuxLinux6.16affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.16unaffected
LinuxLinux6.16.1 <= 6.16.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.17 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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