CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-39890
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-09-26
- 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
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath12k: fix memory leak in ath12k_service_ready_ext_event
Currently, in ath12k_service_ready_ext_event(), svc_rdy_ext.mac_phy_caps
is not freed in the failure case, causing a memory leak. The following
trace is observed in kmemleak:
unreferenced object 0xffff8b3eb5789c00 (size 1024):
comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294942577
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7b 00 00 10 ............{...
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 1f 38 00 00 .............8..
backtrace (crc 44e1c357):
__kmalloc_noprof+0x30b/0x410
ath12k_wmi_mac_phy_caps_parse+0x84/0x100 [ath12k]
ath12k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x5e/0x140 [ath12k]
ath12k_wmi_svc_rdy_ext_parse+0x308/0x4c0 [ath12k]
ath12k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x5e/0x140 [ath12k]
ath12k_service_ready_ext_event.isra.0+0x44/0xd0 [ath12k]
ath12k_wmi_op_rx+0x2eb/0xd70 [ath12k]
ath12k_htc_rx_completion_handler+0x1f4/0x330 [ath12k]
ath12k_ce_recv_process_cb+0x218/0x300 [ath12k]
ath12k_pci_ce_workqueue+0x1b/0x30 [ath12k]
process_one_work+0x219/0x680
bh_worker+0x198/0x1f0
tasklet_action+0x13/0x30
handle_softirqs+0xca/0x460
__irq_exit_rcu+0xbe/0x110
irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30
Free svc_rdy_ext.mac_phy_caps in the error case to fix this memory leak.
Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.3 < 6.6.94)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.34)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1089f65b2de78c7837ef6b4f26146a5a5b0b9749 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a392f874ac83a77ad0e53eb8aafdbeb787c9298 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89142d34d5602c7447827beb181fa06eb08b9d5c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99dbad1b01d3b2f361a9db55c1af1212be497a3d Patch