CVE-2025-71227 Affecting linux-aws-6.12 package, versions <6.12.80-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-LINUXAWS612-15991861
  • published12 Apr 2026
  • disclosed18 Feb 2026

Introduced: 18 Feb 2026

CVE-2025-71227  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard linux-aws-6.12 to version 6.12.80-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-aws-6.12 package and not the linux-aws-6.12 package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: don't WARN for connections on invalid channels

It's not clear (to me) how exactly syzbot managed to hit this, but it seems conceivable that e.g. regulatory changed and has disabled a channel between scanning (channel is checked to be usable by cfg80211_get_ies_channel_number) and connecting on the channel later.

With one scenario that isn't covered elsewhere described above, the warning isn't good, replace it with a (more informative) error message.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1