CVE-2025-39957

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:wifi: mac80211: increase scan_ies_len for S1GCurrently the S1G capability element is not taken into accountfor the scan_ies_len, which leads to a buffer length validationfailure in ieee80211_prep_hw_scan() and subsequent WARN in__ieee80211_start_scan(). This prevents hw scanning from functioning.To fix ensure we accommodate for the S1G capability length.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.8

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.011

Associated Vulnerability

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Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234