CVE-2025-38643 — Improper Locking in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.06%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 22
Latest updateApr 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: cfg80211: Add missing lock in cfg80211_check_and_end_cac()
Callers of wdev_chandef() must hold the wiphy mutex.
But the worker cfg80211_propagate_cac_done_wk() never takes the lock.
Which triggers the warning below with the mesh_peer_connected_dfs
test from hostapd and not (yet) released mac80211 code changes:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 495 at net/wireless/chan.c:1552 wdev_chandef+0x60/0x165
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6