CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38642
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-08-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-617
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: fix WARN_ON for monitor mode on some devices
On devices without WANT_MONITOR_VIF (and probably without
channel context support) we get a WARN_ON for changing the
per-link setting of a monitor interface.
Since we already skip AP_VLAN interfaces and MONITOR with
WANT_MONITOR_VIF and/or NO_VIRTUAL_MONITOR should update
the settings, catch this in the link change code instead
of the warning.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness