Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 3, 2025· Updated Nov 3, 2025
wifi: rtw88: fix the 'para' buffer size to avoid reading out of bounds
CVE-2025-38159
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtw88: fix the 'para' buffer size to avoid reading out of bounds
Set the size to 6 instead of 2, since 'para' array is passed to 'rtw_fw_bt_wifi_control(rtwdev, para[0], ¶[1])', which reads 5 bytes:
void rtw_fw_bt_wifi_control(struct rtw_dev *rtwdev, u8 op_code, u8 *data) { ... SET_BT_WIFI_CONTROL_DATA1(h2c_pkt, *data); SET_BT_WIFI_CONTROL_DATA2(h2c_pkt, *(data + 1)); ... SET_BT_WIFI_CONTROL_DATA5(h2c_pkt, *(data + 4));
Detected using the static analysis tool - Svace.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 5.4
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ee8ea6937d13b20f90ff35d71ccc03ba448182dmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c2c372de2e108319236203cce6de44d70ae15cdmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/68a1037f0bac4de9a585aa9c879ef886109f3647mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/74e18211c2c89ab66c9546baa7408288db61aa0dmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9febcc8bded8be0d7efd8237fcef599b6d93b788mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c13255389499275bc5489a0b5b7940ccea3aef04mitre
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