# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38013"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:28:22.672Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:19:37.553Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-38013"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38013.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38013"
title: "wifi: mac80211: Set n_channels after allocating struct cfg80211_scan_request"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: Set n_channels after allocating struct cfg80211_scan_request\n\nMake sure that n_channels is set after allocating the\nstruct cfg80211_registered_device::int_scan_req member. Seen with\nsyzkaller:\n\nUBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in net/mac80211/scan.c:1208:5\nindex 0 is out of range for type 'struct ieee80211_channel *[] __counted_by(n_channels)' (aka 'struct ieee80211_channel *[]')\n\nThis was missed in the initial conversions because I failed to locate\nthe allocation likely due to the \"sizeof(void *)\" not matching the\n\"channels\" array type."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e3eac9f32ec04112b39e01b574ac739382469bf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fde33ab3c052a302ee8a0b739094b88ceae4dd67"},{"version":"e3eac9f32ec04112b39e01b574ac739382469bf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"07c737d9ab02c07b562aefcca16aa95077368e24"},{"version":"e3eac9f32ec04112b39e01b574ac739382469bf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3192e999a0d05ea0ba2c59c09afaf0b8ee70b81"},{"version":"e3eac9f32ec04112b39e01b574ac739382469bf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82bbe02b2500ef0a62053fe2eb84773fe31c5a0a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.92","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.30","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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