GHSA-c5gg-v573-hv7fMediumCVSS 5.5
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: don't WARN...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: don't WARN for connections on invalid channels
It's not clear (to me) how exactly syzbot managed to hit this, but it seems conceivable that e.g. regulatory changed and has disabled a channel between scanning (channel is checked to be usable by cfg80211_get_ies_channel_number) and connecting on the channel later.
With one scenario that isn't covered elsewhere described above, the warning isn't good, replace it with a (more informative) error message.
🔗 References (7)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71227
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10d3ff7e5812c8d70300f6fa8f524009a06aa7e1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99067b58a408a384d2a45c105eb3dce980a862ce
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/579cf5939f8f4c4f88c75862d0c573fb13567b74
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c02b1d244a5d799696ca74d3fba6539c8d76195f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6acc2d23f13d60874981b4828ba156ba01c86510
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c5gg-v573-hv7f