CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2025-38157
High (7.8). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath9k_htc: Abort software beacon handling if disabled
A malicious USB device can send a WMI_SWBA_EVENTID event from an
ath9k_htc-managed device before beaconing has been enabled. This causes
a device-by-zero error in the driver, leading to either a crash or an
out of bounds read.
Prevent this by aborting the handling in ath9k_htc_swba() if beacons are
not enabled.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 8% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0281c19074976ec48f0078d50530b406ddae75bc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40471b23147c86ea3ed97faee79937c618250bd0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5482ef9875eaa43f0435e14570e1193823de857e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a85c21f812e02cb00ca07007d88acdd42d08c46
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ee3fb6258da8c890a51b514f60d7570dc703605