CVE-2025-39849 (GCVE-0-2025-39849)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-19 15:26
Modified
2026-08-05 12:05
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: sme: cap SSID length in __cfg80211_connect_result() If the ssid->datalen is more than IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN (32) it would lead to memory corruption so add some bounds checking.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: dd43f8f90206054e7da7593de0a334fb2cd0ea88
Version: c38c701851011c94ce3be1ccb3593678d2933fd8
Version: c38c701851011c94ce3be1ccb3593678d2933fd8
Version: c38c701851011c94ce3be1ccb3593678d2933fd8
Version: c38c701851011c94ce3be1ccb3593678d2933fd8
Version: bf3c348c5fdcf00a7eeed04a1b83e454d2dca2e5
Version: 6.1.16   ≤
Version: 6.2.3   ≤
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