{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-38643", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T04:51:24.030Z", "datePublished": "2025-08-22T16:00:49.172Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:03:39.579Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:03:39.579Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: cfg80211: Add missing lock in cfg80211_check_and_end_cac()\n\nCallers of wdev_chandef() must hold the wiphy mutex.\n\nBut the worker cfg80211_propagate_cac_done_wk() never takes the lock.\nWhich triggers the warning below with the mesh_peer_connected_dfs\ntest from hostapd and not (yet) released mac80211 code changes:\n\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 495 at net/wireless/chan.c:1552 wdev_chandef+0x60/0x165\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 495 Comm: kworker/u4:2 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5-wt-g03960e6f9d47 #33 13c287eeabfe1efea01c0bcc863723ab082e17cf\nWorkqueue: cfg80211 cfg80211_propagate_cac_done_wk\nStack:\n 00000000 00000001 ffffff00 6093267c\n 00000000 6002ec30 6d577c50 60037608\n 00000000 67e8d108 6063717b 00000000\nCall Trace:\n [<6002ec30>] ? _printk+0x0/0x98\n [<6003c2b3>] show_stack+0x10e/0x11a\n [<6002ec30>] ? _printk+0x0/0x98\n [<60037608>] dump_stack_lvl+0x71/0xb8\n [<6063717b>] ? wdev_chandef+0x60/0x165\n [<6003766d>] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20\n [<6005d1b7>] __warn+0x101/0x20f\n [<6005d3a8>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0xe3/0x15d\n [<600b0c5c>] ? mark_lock.part.0+0x0/0x4ec\n [<60751191>] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x0/0x16\n [<600b11a2>] ? mark_held_locks+0x5a/0x6e\n [<6005d2c5>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x0/0x15d\n [<60052e53>] ? unblock_signals+0x3a/0xe7\n [<60052f2d>] ? um_set_signals+0x2d/0x43\n [<60751191>] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x0/0x16\n [<607508b2>] ? lock_is_held_type+0x207/0x21f\n [<6063717b>] wdev_chandef+0x60/0x165\n [<605f89b4>] regulatory_propagate_dfs_state+0x247/0x43f\n [<60052f00>] ? um_set_signals+0x0/0x43\n [<605e6bfd>] cfg80211_propagate_cac_done_wk+0x3a/0x4a\n [<6007e460>] process_scheduled_works+0x3bc/0x60e\n [<6007d0ec>] ? move_linked_works+0x4d/0x81\n [<6007d120>] ? assign_work+0x0/0xaa\n [<6007f81f>] worker_thread+0x220/0x2dc\n [<600786ef>] ? set_pf_worker+0x0/0x57\n [<60087c96>] ? to_kthread+0x0/0x43\n [<6008ab3c>] kthread+0x2d3/0x2e2\n [<6007f5ff>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x2dc\n [<6006c05b>] ? calculate_sigpending+0x0/0x56\n [<6003b37d>] new_thread_handler+0x4a/0x64\nirq event stamp: 614611\nhardirqs last enabled at (614621): [<00000000600bc96b>] __up_console_sem+0x82/0xaf\nhardirqs last disabled at (614630): [<00000000600bc92c>] __up_console_sem+0x43/0xaf\nsoftirqs last enabled at (614268): [<00000000606c55c6>] __ieee80211_wake_queue+0x933/0x985\nsoftirqs last disabled at (614266): [<00000000606c52d6>] __ieee80211_wake_queue+0x643/0x985" } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 8.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:A - The vulnerable worker is driven by DFS events on the 802.11 stack — radar detection, which an attacker in RF range can force on demand by transmitting DFS radar pulse patterns, and CAC completion during normal AP/mesh operation; the racing side is driven by remote peer activity (mesh peering, association, channel switch) on a second radio. This is same-RF-segment reach, matching the WiFi = Adjacent classification.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race — radar-event injection can be repeated indefinitely to re-arm the unlocked worker while over-the-air traffic keeps the second wiphy busy in mutex-protected chanctx work. The guaranteed lockdep WARN in wdev_chandef() needs no race at all, only the multi-radio DFS configuration that is standard on AP/mesh hardware.\nPR:N - No credentials or local account are needed; radar pulse injection and mesh/association frames require no authentication to the target, and CAC-finished events occur during ordinary AP operation. The attacker holds no privileges on the affected system.\nUI:N - No victim action is required — the worker runs automatically from the cfg80211 workqueue whenever a DFS radar or CAC-finished event propagates to another wiphy.\nS:U - The corruption and crash are confined to the kernel's own security authority; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - Running __ieee80211_link_release_channel() without the wiphy mutex races chanctx refcounting and can free a struct ieee80211_chanctx still referenced by another link, yielding a use-after-free on a heap object whose contents are influenceable via crafted channel parameters — a UAF read primitive over kernel memory.\nI:H - The same unsynchronized free/reassign of chanctx state gives a write-after-free into a reallocated slab object, and the unlocked mutation of link chanctx pointers and CAC state corrupts wiphy-mutex-protected structures — memory corruption exploitable for control-flow hijack.\nA:H - The path unconditionally hits the lockdep_assert_wiphy() WARN in wdev_chandef(), which panics on panic_on_warn systems, and the chanctx refcount/list corruption and use-after-free produce kernel oopses and panics on the affected AP." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "net/wireless/reg.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "26ec17a1dc5ecdd8d91aba63ead6f8b5ad5dea0d", "lessThan": "defe9ce121160788547e8e6ec4438ad8a14f40dd", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "26ec17a1dc5ecdd8d91aba63ead6f8b5ad5dea0d", "lessThan": "b3d24038eb775f2f7a1dfef58d8e1dc444a12820", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "26ec17a1dc5ecdd8d91aba63ead6f8b5ad5dea0d", "lessThan": "4a63523d3541eef4cf504a9682e6fbe94ffe79a6", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "26ec17a1dc5ecdd8d91aba63ead6f8b5ad5dea0d", "lessThan": 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