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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 1, 2025· Updated Nov 3, 2025

wifi: mwifiex: Initialize the chan_stats array to zero

CVE-2025-39891

Description

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

wifi: mwifiex: Initialize the chan_stats array to zero

The adapter->chan_stats[] array is initialized in mwifiex_init_channel_scan_gap() with vmalloc(), which doesn't zero out memory. The array is filled in mwifiex_update_chan_statistics() and then the user can query the data in mwifiex_cfg80211_dump_survey().

There are two potential issues here. What if the user calls mwifiex_cfg80211_dump_survey() before the data has been filled in. Also the mwifiex_update_chan_statistics() function doesn't necessarily initialize the whole array. Since the array was not initialized at the start that could result in an information leak.

Also this array is pretty small. It's a maximum of 900 bytes so it's more appropriate to use kcalloc() instead vmalloc().

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