CVE-2025-37973 – Cisco Wireless Out-of-Bounds Access Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-37973 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    May. 20, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    wifi: cfg80211: fix out-of-bounds access during multi-link element defragmentation

    Currently during the multi-link element defragmentation process, the
    multi-link element length added to the total IEs length when calculating
    the length of remaining IEs after the multi-link element in
    cfg80211_defrag_mle(). This could lead to out-of-bounds access if the
    multi-link element or its corresponding fragment elements are the last
    elements in the IEs buffer.

    To address this issue, correctly calculate the remaining IEs length by
    deducting the multi-link element end offset from total IEs end offset.

    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/023c1f2f0609218103cbcb48e0104b144d4a16dc
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73dde269a1a43e6b1aa92eba13ad2df58bfdd38e
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9423f6da825172b8dc60d4688ed3d147291c3be9
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1c6d0c6199bd5f4cfc7a66ae7032b6e805f904d
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