CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-39919

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's mt76 WiFi driver (MT7996 chipset), there is no check whether wcid entries belong to stations. Passing a global entry to rx functions can cause memory corruption via incorrect pointer casting.

Risk Assessment

The organization may experience system crashes or data security breaches due to memory corruption during WiFi traffic handling.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2025-39919.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: add missing check for rx wcid entries Non-station wcid entries must not be passed to the rx functions. In case of the global wcid entry, it could even lead to corruption in the wcid array due to pointer being casted to struct mt7996_sta_link using container_of.

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