Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 9, 2025· Updated Jan 2, 2026
wifi: mac80211: increase scan_ies_len for S1G
CVE-2025-39957
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: increase scan_ies_len for S1G
Currently the S1G capability element is not taken into account for the scan_ies_len, which leads to a buffer length validation failure 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.
Affected products
3- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 6.4
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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