CVE-2025-38159

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 102
Analyzed
Published: 03 Jul 2025, 08:36
Last modified:11 May 2026, 21:22

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
28/100
CVSS Score
7.1 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.07% LOW
0% probability +0.05%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

03 Jul 2025, 08:36
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
11 May 2026, 21:22
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: fix the 'para' buffer size to avoid reading out of bounds Set the size to 6 instead of 2, since 'para' array is passed to 'rtw_fw_bt_wifi_control(rtwdev, para[0], &para[1])', which reads 5 bytes: void rtw_fw_bt_wifi_control(struct rtw_dev *rtwdev, u8 op_code, u8 *data) { ... SET_BT_WIFI_CONTROL_DATA1(h2c_pkt, *data); SET_BT_WIFI_CONTROL_DATA2(h2c_pkt, *(data + 1)); ... SET_BT_WIFI_CONTROL_DATA5(h2c_pkt, *(data + 4)); Detected using the static analysis tool - Svace.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.07%• Percentile: 22%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-125•Out-of-bounds Read

    The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    11.0

  • linux•linux

    ≥ 4136214f7c46839c15f0f177fe1d5052302c0205, < 1ee8ea6937d13b20f90ff35d71ccc03ba448182d | ≥ 4136214f7c46839c15f0f177fe1d5052302c0205, < 68a1037f0bac4de9a585aa9c879ef886109f3647 | ≥ 4136214f7c46839c15f0f177fe1d5052302c0205, < 74e18211c2c89ab66c9546baa7408288db61aa0d | ≥ 4136214f7c46839c15f0f177fe1d5052302c0205, < c13255389499275bc5489a0b5b7940ccea3aef04 | ≥ 4136214f7c46839c15f0f177fe1d5052302c0205, < 9febcc8bded8be0d7efd8237fcef599b6d93b788 | ≥ 4136214f7c46839c15f0f177fe1d5052302c0205, < 4c2c372de2e108319236203cce6de44d70ae15cd | 5.4

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≥ 5.4, < 5.15.186 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.142 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.94 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.34 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.15.3

References (7)