CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38599

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.20%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the mt76 WiFi driver in the Linux kernel, there is an out-of-bounds (OOB) access vulnerability in mt7996_tx(). If link_id is set to IEEE80211_LINK_UNSPECIFIED, it may read or write outside the allocated memory.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could lead to system crash (kernel panic) or potentially privilege escalation if an attacker can control the link_id value.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing a fix that validates link_id before use.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: Fix possible OOB access in mt7996_tx() Fis possible Out-Of-Boundary access in mt7996_tx routine if link_id is set to IEEE80211_LINK_UNSPECIFIED

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS