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

mac80211: limit injected vht mcs/nss in ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap

Limit max values for vht mcs and nss in ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap
routine in order to fix the following warning reported by syzbot:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10717 at include/net/mac80211.h:989 ieee80211_rate_set_vht include/net/mac80211.h:989 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10717 at include/net/mac80211.h:989 ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap+0x101e/0x12d0 net/mac80211/tx.c:2244
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 10717 Comm: syz-executor.5 Not tainted 5.14.0-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:ieee80211_rate_set_vht include/net/mac80211.h:989 [inline]
RIP: 0010:ieee80211_parse_tx_radiotap+0x101e/0x12d0 net/mac80211/tx.c:2244
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000186f3e8 EFLAGS: 00010216
RAX: 0000000000000618 RBX: ffff88804ef76500 RCX: ffffc900143a5000
RDX: 0000000000040000 RSI: ffffffff888f478e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00000000ffffffff R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000100
R10: ffffffff888f46f9 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000fffffff8
R13: ffff88804ef7653c R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000004
FS: 00007fbf5718f700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2de23000 CR3: 000000006a671000 CR4: 00000000001506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
ieee80211_monitor_select_queue+0xa6/0x250 net/mac80211/iface.c:740
netdev_core_pick_tx+0x169/0x2e0 net/core/dev.c:4089
__dev_queue_xmit+0x6f9/0x3710 net/core/dev.c:4165
__bpf_tx_skb net/core/filter.c:2114 [inline]
__bpf_redirect_no_mac net/core/filter.c:2139 [inline]
__bpf_redirect+0x5ba/0xd20 net/core/filter.c:2162
____bpf_clone_redirect net/core/filter.c:2429 [inline]
bpf_clone_redirect+0x2ae/0x420 net/core/filter.c:2401
bpf_prog_eeb6f53a69e5c6a2+0x59/0x234
bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:717 [inline]
__bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:624 [inline]
bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:631 [inline]
bpf_test_run+0x381/0xa30 net/bpf/test_run.c:119
bpf_prog_test_run_skb+0xb84/0x1ee0 net/bpf/test_run.c:663
bpf_prog_test_run kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3307 [inline]
__sys_bpf+0x2137/0x5df0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4605
__do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4691 [inline]
__se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4689 [inline]
__x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xb0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4689
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x4665f9

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Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-04T07:10:05.071Z

Reserved: 2024-05-21T14:58:30.814Z

Link: CVE-2021-47395

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T05:39:59.195Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-05-21T15:15:24.810

Modified: 2025-09-25T15:36:57.800

Link: CVE-2021-47395

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-05-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-47395 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-13T11:22:21Z

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