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CVE-2025-39849

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Description

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.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e472f59d02c82b511bc43a3f96d62ed08bf4537f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e751d46336205abc259ed3990e850a9843fb649

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62b635dcd69c4fde7ce1de4992d71420a37e51e3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cb7cab7adf9b1e6a99e2081b0e30e9e59d07523

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31229145e6ba5ace3e9391113376fa05b7831ede

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-19

Updated: 2025-11-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018

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