{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-21906", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2024-12-29T08:45:45.786Z", "datePublished": "2025-04-01T15:40:47.059Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:55:17.575Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T11:55:17.575Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: iwlwifi: mvm: clean up ROC on failure\n\nIf the firmware fails to start the session protection, then we\ndo call iwl_mvm_roc_finished() here, but that won't do anything\nat all because IWL_MVM_STATUS_ROC_P2P_RUNNING was never set.\nSet IWL_MVM_STATUS_ROC_P2P_RUNNING in the failure/stop path.\nIf it started successfully before, it's already set, so that\ndoesn't matter, and if it didn't start it needs to be set to\nclean up.\n\nNot doing so will lead to a WARN_ON() later on a fresh remain-\non-channel, since the link is already active when activated as\nit was never deactivated." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H", "baseScore": 7.6, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:A - The affected code is the iwlwifi P2P remain-on-channel/session-protection path, which is driven over the air by adjacent Wi-Fi Direct peers — an attacker in radio range performing P2P discovery/GO negotiation causes the target to issue repeated ROC cycles, and RF congestion on the same segment is what makes the firmware fail to start session protection. No routable-network path exists, so this is Adjacent rather than Network.\nAC:L - The attacker can drive ROC attempts repeatedly and indefinitely at no cost, and each attempt that the firmware fails to start leaks a station ID and leaves the link active; there is no memory layout to guess, no race to win, and no lockout, so success is only a matter of retrying.\nPR:N - An adjacent P2P peer needs no credentials on the target — P2P discovery, provision discovery and GO negotiation are entirely pre-association, and the target's supplicant responds automatically by requesting off-channel ROC on the P2P_DEVICE interface.\nUI:N - On devices where Wi-Fi Direct/P2P is active (Android phones, Miracast/Chromecast-capable systems, wpa_supplicant with P2P enabled), the P2P device sits in listen/find state and answers peer frames automatically, so no victim action is required at exploitation time.\nS:U - The corrupted state, the WARN, and the leaked station/queue resources are all confined to the kernel's own iwlwifi driver state within the same host; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:L - The resulting `WARN_ON_ONCE()` in `iwl_mvm_link_changed()` dumps a full backtrace with kernel text/module addresses and register contents into the ring buffer, exposing KASLR-relevant pointers on the common `dmesg_restrict=0` configurations; the leak is bounded to that log record with no out-of-bounds or arbitrary read.\nI:L - The skipped cleanup leaves stale kernel/firmware state — the link remains active, a firmware station entry and the p2p_dev queue are orphaned and overwritten on the next ROC, and unflushed off-channel frames are documented to be transmitted during a later, unrelated time event (i.e. on the wrong channel/context). The modification is limited to driver/device state, not arbitrary kernel memory.\nA:H - The bug reliably produces a kernel `WARN_ON_ONCE`, which panics immediately on the many production, cloud, hardened, Android and CI configurations that set `panic_on_warn=1`; even without that, repeated triggering leaks firmware station IDs until `iwl_mvm_find_free_sta_id()` returns `IWL_INVALID_STA`, breaking remain-on-channel, P2P and association until the interface or firmware is reset." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/time-event.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "35c1bbd93c4e6969b3ac238b48a8bdff3e223ed8", "lessThan": "a88c18409b5d69f426d5acc583c053eac71756a3", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "35c1bbd93c4e6969b3ac238b48a8bdff3e223ed8", "lessThan": "d1a12fcb9051bbf38b2e5af310ffb102a0fab6f9", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "35c1bbd93c4e6969b3ac238b48a8bdff3e223ed8", "lessThan": "f9751163bffd3fe60794929829f810968c6de73d", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/time-event.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.9", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.9", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.12.19", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.13.7", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.13.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.14", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.9", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.19" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.9", "versionEndExcluding": "6.13.7" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.9", "versionEndExcluding": "6.14" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a88c18409b5d69f426d5acc583c053eac71756a3" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1a12fcb9051bbf38b2e5af310ffb102a0fab6f9" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9751163bffd3fe60794929829f810968c6de73d" } ], "title": "wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: clean up ROC on failure", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }