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CVE-2025-38644

wifi: mac80211: reject TDLS operations when station is not associated PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: reject TDLS operations when station is not associated syzbot triggered a WARN in ieee80211_tdls_oper() by sending NL80211_TDLS_ENABLE_LINK immediately after NL80211_CMD_CONNECT, before association completed and without prior TDLS setup. This left internal state like sdata->u.mgd.tdls_peer uninitialized, leading to a WARN_ON() in code paths that assumed it was valid. Reject the operation early if not in station mode or not associated.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 81dd2b8822410e56048b927be779d95a2b6dc186 before 0c84204cf0bbe89e454a5caccc6a908bc7db1542; affected 81dd2b8822410e56048b927be779d95a2b6dc186 before 378ae9ccaea3f445838a087962a067b5cb2e8577; affected 81dd2b8822410e56048b927be779d95a2b6dc186 before af72badd5ee423eb16f6ad7fe0a62f1b4252d848; affected 81dd2b8822410e56048b927be779d95a2b6dc186 before 4df663d4c1ca386dcab2f743dfc9f0cc07aef73c; affected 81dd2b8822410e56048b927be779d95a2b6dc186 before 31af06b574394530f68a4310c45ecbe2f68853c4; affected 81dd2b8822410e56048b927be779d95a2b6dc186 before 16ecdab5446f15a61ec88eb0d23d25d009821db0
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.17; unaffected 0 before 3.17; unaffected 6.1.148 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.102 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.42 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.15.10 through 6.15.*; unaffected 6.16.1 through 6.16.*; unaffected 6.17 through *

CWE

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CVE

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