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CVE-2025-21909

wifi: nl80211: reject cooked mode if it is set along with other flags PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: nl80211: reject cooked mode if it is set along with other flags It is possible to set both MONITOR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES and MONITOR_FLAG_ACTIVE flags simultaneously on the same monitor interface from the userspace. This causes a sub-interface to be created with no IEEE80211_SDATA_IN_DRIVER bit set because the monitor interface is in the cooked state and it takes precedence over all other states. When the interface is then being deleted the kernel calls WARN_ONCE() from check_sdata_in_driver() because of missing that bit. Fix this by rejecting MONITOR_FLAG_COOK_FRAMES if it is set along with other flags. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 66f7ac50ed7cc5c19a62bc97e8f6e7891004a03a before 5ea856d93794c4afa5542defd8c61f2708dc245a; affected 66f7ac50ed7cc5c19a62bc97e8f6e7891004a03a before 351eb7ac53ff1cd94d893c0c4534ced2f36ae7d7; affected 66f7ac50ed7cc5c19a62bc97e8f6e7891004a03a before cd1bdcb77fdc03c253137e55bae10551b3481461; affected 66f7ac50ed7cc5c19a62bc97e8f6e7891004a03a before 236f41ca728f23210b31ed2d1d8a6df575a4b2d6; affected 66f7ac50ed7cc5c19a62bc97e8f6e7891004a03a before ebebbb0eded2ed9a1abfa31962f6fb699e6abce7; affected 66f7ac50ed7cc5c19a62bc97e8f6e7891004a03a before 521e55c2b0d6028861ac0a2d06aa57bb0e3ac486; affected 66f7ac50ed7cc5c19a62bc97e8f6e7891004a03a before ac4860141300581d3e2f6c6dafa37220f7ea9f65; affected 66f7ac50ed7cc5c19a62bc97e8f6e7891004a03a before 49f27f29446a5bfe633dd2cc0cfebd48a1a5e77f
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.26; unaffected 0 before 2.6.26; unaffected 5.4.291 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.235 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.179 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.131 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.83 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.19 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.13.7 through 6.13.*; unaffected 6.14 through *

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