CVE-2025-38159

high
Published 2025-08-18 ยท Modified 2025-08-22
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.0

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: fix the 'para' buffer size to avoid reading out of bounds Set the size to 6 instead of 2, since 'para' array is passed to 'rtw_fw_bt_wifi_control(rtwdev, para[0], &para[1])', which reads 5 bytes: void rtw_fw_bt_wifi_control(struct rtw_dev *rtwdev, u8 op_code, u8 *data) { ... SET_BT_WIFI_CONTROL_DATA1(h2c_pkt, *data); SET_BT_WIFI_CONTROL_DATA2(h2c_pkt, *(data + 1)); ... SET_BT_WIFI_CONTROL_DATA5(h2c_pkt, *(data + 4)); Detected using the static analysis tool - Svace.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel9fixed
rockylinux rocky8fixed
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.1.147-1
debian debianforkyfixed6.12.35-1
debian debiansidfixed6.12.35-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.12.35-1
debian debianbullseyefixed6.1.153-1~deb11u1
almalinux almalinux9fixedkernel-debug-devel-5.14.0-570.35.1.el9_6.aarch64.rpm

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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