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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-21828 (HIGH 8.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: don't flush non-uploaded STAs If STA state is pre-moved to AUTHORIZED (such as in IBSS scenarios) and insertion fails, the station is freed. In this case, the driver never knew about the station

[NVD] CVE-2025-21828 (HIGH 8.8) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: don't flush non-uploaded STAs If STA state is pre-moved to AUTHORIZED (such as in IBSS scenarios) and insertion fails, the station is freed. In this case, the driver never knew about the station

lownvdPublished 2025-03-06

CVE-2025-21828 CVSS: 8.8 HIGH Published: 2025-03-06T16:15:55.070

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: don't flush non-uploaded STAs

If STA state is pre-moved to AUTHORIZED (such as in IBSS scenarios) and insertion fails, the station is freed. In this case, the driver never knew about the station, so trying to flush it is unexpected and may crash.

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21828