High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 19, 2025· Updated May 12, 2026

CVE-2025-39849

Description

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

wifi: cfg80211: sme: cap SSID length in __cfg80211_connect_result()

If the ssid->datalen is more than IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN (32) it would lead to memory corruption so add some bounds checking.

No patches discovered yet.

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.