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CVE-2025-38642 (GCVE-0-2025-38642)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-22 16:00 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:32
VLAI
Title
wifi: mac80211: fix WARN_ON for monitor mode on some devices
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: fix WARN_ON for monitor mode on some devices On devices without WANT_MONITOR_VIF (and probably without channel context support) we get a WARN_ON for changing the per-link setting of a monitor interface. Since we already skip AP_VLAN interfaces and MONITOR with WANT_MONITOR_VIF and/or NO_VIRTUAL_MONITOR should update the settings, catch this in the link change code instead of the warning.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: c4382d5ca1af75cf909463c7a707efd1a5f9a557 , < ff15498ebaa49c5429a74e70a1951dede60cd14c (git)
Affected: c4382d5ca1af75cf909463c7a707efd1a5f9a557 , < 1e10ded6b0f9b0eeefaacbb6c6c6afff3f702812 (git)
Affected: c4382d5ca1af75cf909463c7a707efd1a5f9a557 , < c57e5b9819dfd16d709bcd6cb633301ed0829a66 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.10 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.1 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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