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CVE-2025-39918 (GCVE-0-2025-39918)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 07:55 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:06
VLAI
Title
wifi: mt76: fix linked list corruption
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: fix linked list corruption Never leave scheduled wcid entries on the temporary on-stack list
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-14 17:43 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 0b3be9d1d34e21dada69c539fbf51a5fe868028a , < e4d5a5fc61fdc65220a1ce078d24c1d20bbb0835 (git)
Affected: 0b3be9d1d34e21dada69c539fbf51a5fe868028a , < c91a59b04f928cb4a1436b0e0a27650883d0388a (git)
Affected: 0b3be9d1d34e21dada69c539fbf51a5fe868028a , < 49fba87205bec14a0f6bd997635bf3968408161e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.46 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.6 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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