# 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-2025-39864"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-19T15:26:33.787Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:05:44.524Z"
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-2025-39864"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39864.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39864"
title: "wifi: cfg80211: fix use-after-free in cmp_bss()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: cfg80211: fix use-after-free in cmp_bss()\n\nFollowing bss_free() quirk introduced in commit 776b3580178f\n(\"cfg80211: track hidden SSID networks properly\"), adjust\ncfg80211_update_known_bss() to free the last beacon frame\nelements only if they're not shared via the corresponding\n'hidden_beacon_bss' pointer."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3ab8227d3e7d1d2bf1829675d3197e3cb600e9f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8bb681e879ca3c9f722aa08d3d7ae41c42a8807"},{"version":"3ab8227d3e7d1d2bf1829675d3197e3cb600e9f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a97a9791e455bb0cd5e7a38b5abcb05523d4e21c"},{"version":"3ab8227d3e7d1d2bf1829675d3197e3cb600e9f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ff040562c10a540b8d851f7f4145fa112977f853"},{"version":"3ab8227d3e7d1d2bf1829675d3197e3cb600e9f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6854476d9e1aeaaf05ebc98d610061c2075db07d"},{"version":"3ab8227d3e7d1d2bf1829675d3197e3cb600e9f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b7d08929178c16398278613df07ad65cf63cce9d"},{"version":"3ab8227d3e7d1d2bf1829675d3197e3cb600e9f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b7ae04969f822283a95c866967e42b4d75e0eef"},{"version":"3ab8227d3e7d1d2bf1829675d3197e3cb600e9f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"912c4b66bef713a20775cfbf3b5e9bd71525c716"},{"version":"3ab8227d3e7d1d2bf1829675d3197e3cb600e9f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"26e84445f02ce6b2fe5f3e0e28ff7add77f35e08"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4"},{"version":"5.4.299","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.243","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.192","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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