CVE-2025-39957: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: increase scan_ies_len for S1G Currently the S1G capability element is not taken into account for the scan_ies_len, which leads to a buffer length validation failure in ieee80211_prep_hw_scan() and subsequent WARN in __ieee80211_start_scan(). This prevents hw scanning from functioning. To fix ensure we accommodate for the S1G capability length.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.4, before 6.6.108 (fixed in 6.6.108); from 6.7, before 6.12.49 (fixed in 6.12.49); from 6.13, before 6.16.9 (fixed in 6.16.9); version 6.17 only

Published 2025-10-09. Last modified 2026-07-30.