CVE-2025-39891 Affecting linux-6.1 package, versions <6.1.153-1~deb11u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LINUX61-13542177
  • published14 Oct 2025
  • disclosed1 Oct 2025

Introduced: 1 Oct 2025

CVE-2025-39891  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 linux-6.1 to version 6.1.153-1~deb11u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-6.1 package and not the linux-6.1 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

wifi: mwifiex: Initialize the chan_stats array to zero

The adapter->chan_stats[] array is initialized in mwifiex_init_channel_scan_gap() with vmalloc(), which doesn't zero out memory. The array is filled in mwifiex_update_chan_statistics() and then the user can query the data in mwifiex_cfg80211_dump_survey().

There are two potential issues here. What if the user calls mwifiex_cfg80211_dump_survey() before the data has been filled in. Also the mwifiex_update_chan_statistics() function doesn't necessarily initialize the whole array. Since the array was not initialized at the start that could result in an information leak.

Also this array is pretty small. It's a maximum of 900 bytes so it's more appropriate to use kcalloc() instead vmalloc().

CVSS Base Scores

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