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CVE-2025-21828

wifi: mac80211: don't flush non-uploaded STAs PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: don't flush non-uploaded STAs If STA state is pre-moved to AUTHORIZED (such as in IBSS scenarios) and insertion fails, the station is freed. In this case, the driver never knew about the station, so trying to flush it is unexpected and may crash. Check if the sta was uploaded to the driver before and fix this.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected d00800a289c9349bb659a698cbd7bc04521dc927 before cf21ef3d430847ba864bbc9b2774fffcc03ce321; affected d00800a289c9349bb659a698cbd7bc04521dc927 before cd10b7fcb95a6a86c67adc54304c59a578ab16af; affected d00800a289c9349bb659a698cbd7bc04521dc927 before 9efb5531271fa7ebae993b2a33a705d9947c7ce6; affected d00800a289c9349bb659a698cbd7bc04521dc927 before aa3ce3f8fafa0b8fb062f28024855ea8cb3f3450
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.4; unaffected 0 before 6.4; unaffected 6.6.76 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.13 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.13.2 through 6.13.*; unaffected 6.14 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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