CVE-2025-39891: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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().

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.19, before 5.4.299 (fixed in 5.4.299); from 5.5, before 5.10.243 (fixed in 5.10.243); from 5.11, before 5.15.192 (fixed in 5.15.192); from 5.16, before 6.1.151 (fixed in 6.1.151); from 6.2, before 6.6.105 (fixed in 6.6.105); from 6.7, before 6.12.46 (fixed in 6.12.46); …

Published 2025-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.