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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21729" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-27T02:07:34.711Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:35:58.252Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21729" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21729.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21729" title: "wifi: rtw89: fix race between cancel_hw_scan and hw_scan completion" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: rtw89: fix race between cancel_hw_scan and hw_scan completion\n\nThe rtwdev-\u003escanning flag isn't protected by mutex originally, so\ncancel_hw_scan can pass the condition, but suddenly hw_scan completion\nunset the flag and calls ieee80211_scan_completed() that will free\nlocal-\u003ehw_scan_req. Then, cancel_hw_scan raises null-ptr-deref and\nuse-after-free. Fix it by moving the check condition to where\nprotected by mutex.\n\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000088-0x000000000000008f]\n CPU: 2 PID: 6922 Comm: kworker/2:2 Tainted: G OE\n Hardware name: LENOVO 2356AD1/2356AD1, BIOS G7ETB6WW (2.76 ) 09/10/2019\n Workqueue: events cfg80211_conn_work [cfg80211]\n RIP: 0010:rtw89_fw_h2c_scan_offload_be+0xc33/0x13c3 [rtw89_core]\n Code: 00 45 89 6c 24 1c 0f 85 23 01 00 00 48 8b 85 20 ff ff ff 48 8d\n RSP: 0018:ffff88811fd9f068 EFLAGS: 00010206\n RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88811fd9f258 RCX: 0000000000000001\n RDX: 0000000000000011 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000089\n RBP: ffff88811fd9f170 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\n R10: ffff88811fd9f108 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88810e47f960\n R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000000000ffff R15: 0000000000000000\n FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881d6f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 00007531dfca55b0 CR3: 00000001be296004 CR4: 00000000001706e0\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? show_regs+0x61/0x73\n ? __die_body+0x20/0x73\n ? die_addr+0x4f/0x7b\n ? exc_general_protection+0x191/0x1db\n ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x27/0x30\n ? rtw89_fw_h2c_scan_offload_be+0xc33/0x13c3 [rtw89_core]\n ? rtw89_fw_h2c_scan_offload_be+0x458/0x13c3 [rtw89_core]\n ? __pfx_rtw89_fw_h2c_scan_offload_be+0x10/0x10 [rtw89_core]\n ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x75/0xdb\n ? __pfx_do_raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10\n rtw89_hw_scan_offload+0xb5e/0xbf7 [rtw89_core]\n ? _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x24\n ? __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x40c/0x471\n ? __pfx_rtw89_hw_scan_offload+0x10/0x10 [rtw89_core]\n ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x13/0x1f\n ? mutex_lock+0xa2/0xdc\n ? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10\n rtw89_hw_scan_abort+0x58/0xb7 [rtw89_core]\n rtw89_ops_cancel_hw_scan+0x120/0x13b [rtw89_core]\n ieee80211_scan_cancel+0x468/0x4d0 [mac80211]\n ieee80211_prep_connection+0x858/0x899 [mac80211]\n ieee80211_mgd_auth+0xbea/0xdde [mac80211]\n ? __pfx_ieee80211_mgd_auth+0x10/0x10 [mac80211]\n ? cfg80211_find_elem+0x15/0x29 [cfg80211]\n ? is_bss+0x1b7/0x1d7 [cfg80211]\n ieee80211_auth+0x18/0x27 [mac80211]\n cfg80211_mlme_auth+0x3bb/0x3e7 [cfg80211]\n cfg80211_conn_do_work+0x410/0xb81 [cfg80211]\n ? __pfx_cfg80211_conn_do_work+0x10/0x10 [cfg80211]\n ? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x1f\n ? psi_group_change+0x8bc/0x944\n ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x22\n ? mutex_lock+0x8e/0xdc\n ? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx___radix_tree_lookup+0x10/0x10\n cfg80211_conn_work+0x245/0x34d [cfg80211]\n ? __pfx_cfg80211_conn_work+0x10/0x10 [cfg80211]\n ? update_cfs_rq_load_avg+0x3bc/0x3d7\n ? sched_clock_noinstr+0x9/0x1a\n ? sched_clock+0x10/0x24\n ? sched_clock_cpu+0x7e/0x42e\n ? newidle_balance+0x796/0x937\n ? __pfx_sched_clock_cpu+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx_newidle_balance+0x10/0x10\n ? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x1f\n ? psi_group_change+0x8bc/0x944\n ? _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x24\n ? raw_spin_rq_unlock+0x47/0x54\n ? raw_spin_rq_unlock_irq+0x9/0x1f\n ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x347/0x586\n ? __schedule+0x27bf/0x2892\n ? mutex_unlock+0x80/0xd0\n ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x75/0xdb\n ? __pfx___schedule+0x10/0x10\n process_scheduled_works+0x58c/0x821\n worker_thread+0x4c7/0x586\n ? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x1f\n kthread+0x285/0x294\n ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork+0x29/0x6f\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30\n \u003c/TASK\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"895907779752606f6a4795abfc008509f8e38314","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7368f88b2e62d043cd64fe7bdd5c3c2a2f9795b0"},{"version":"895907779752606f6a4795abfc008509f8e38314","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2403cb3c235d5e339b580cc3a825493769fadca8"},{"version":"895907779752606f6a4795abfc008509f8e38314","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5afcd6fcd1e1c1fd6bcc9a360c121d10eddade67"},{"version":"895907779752606f6a4795abfc008509f8e38314","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba4bb0402c60e945c4c396c51f0acac3c3e3ea5c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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