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Estas sugerencias regulatorias inv\u00e1lidas deben rechazarse. Si bien una comprobaci\u00f3n de seguridad del commit 47caf685a685 (\"cfg80211: regulatory: reject invalid hints\") parece ser suficiente para evitar estos casos, existe una forma de evitarla por dos razones: 1) El funcionamiento de isalpha() permite usar s\u00edmbolos distintos de las letras latinas may\u00fasculas y min\u00fasculas para determinar un pa\u00eds o dominio. Por ejemplo, las letras griegas tambi\u00e9n se considerar\u00e1n may\u00fasculas y min\u00fasculas, y para estos caracteres isalpha() tambi\u00e9n devolver\u00e1 verdadero. Sin embargo, los c\u00f3digos ISO-3166-1 alpha2 solo deben contener caracteres latinos. 2) Al procesar una solicitud regulatoria de usuario, entre reg_process_hint_user() y regulatory_hint_user() se produce una llamada a queue_regulatory_request() que modifica las letras en request-&gt;alpha2[] con toupper(). Esto funciona correctamente con s\u00edmbolos latinos, pero no tanto con caracteres de letras extra\u00f1as de la segunda parte de _ctype[]. Syzbot genera una advertencia en is_user_regdom_saved() al enviar primero una letra no latina inesperada que toupper() malforma en un car\u00e1cter que falla la comprobaci\u00f3n de isalpha(). Para evitar esto, mejore is_an_alpha2() para garantizar que los s\u00edmbolos entrantes sean \u00fanicamente letras latinas. [1] Informe de Syzbot: ------------[ cortar aqu\u00ed ]------------ Usuario inesperado alpha2: A? ADVERTENCIA: CPU: 1 PID: 964 en net/wireless/reg.c:442 is_user_regdom_saved net/wireless/reg.c:440 [en l\u00ednea] ADVERTENCIA: CPU: 1 PID: 964 en net/wireless/reg.c:442 restore_alpha2 net/wireless/reg.c:3424 [en l\u00ednea] ADVERTENCIA: CPU: 1 PID: 964 en net/wireless/reg.c:442 restore_regulatory_settings+0x3c0/0x1e50 net/wireless/reg.c:3516 M\u00f3dulos vinculados: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 964 Comm: kworker/1:2 No contaminado 6.12.0-rc5-syzkaller-00044-gc1e939a21eb1 #0 Nombre del hardware: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 13/09/2024 Cola de trabajo: events_power_efficient crda_timeout_work RIP: 0010:is_user_regdom_saved net/wireless/reg.c:440 [en l\u00ednea] RIP: 0010:restore_alpha2 net/wireless/reg.c:3424 [en l\u00ednea] RIP: 0010:restore_regulatory_settings+0x3c0/0x1e50 net/wireless/reg.c:3516 ... 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{"bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: wifi: cfg80211: regulatory: improve invalid hints checking", "id": "2356596", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2356596"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "4.3", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-20", "details": ["In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nwifi: cfg80211: regulatory: improve invalid hints checking\nSyzbot keeps reporting an issue [1] that occurs when erroneous symbols\nsent from userspace get through into user_alpha2[] via\nregulatory_hint_user() call. Such invalid regulatory hints should be\nrejected.\nWhile a sanity check from commit 47caf685a685 (\"cfg80211: regulatory:\nreject invalid hints\") looks to be enough to deter these very cases,\nthere is a way to get around it due to 2 reasons.\n1) The way isalpha() works, symbols other than latin lower and\nupper letters may be used to determine a country/domain.\nFor instance, greek letters will also be considered upper/lower\nletters and for such characters isalpha() will return true as well.\nHowever, ISO-3166-1 alpha2 codes should only hold latin\ncharacters.\n2) While processing a user regulatory request, between\nreg_process_hint_user() and regulatory_hint_user() there happens to\nbe a call to queue_regulatory_request() which modifies letters in\nrequest->alpha2[] with toupper(). This works fine for latin symbols,\nless so for weird letter characters from the second part of _ctype[].\nSyzbot triggers a warning in is_user_regdom_saved() by first sending\nover an unexpected non-latin letter that gets malformed by toupper()\ninto a character that ends up failing isalpha() check.\nPrevent this by enhancing is_an_alpha2() to ensure that incoming\nsymbols are latin letters and nothing else.\n[1] Syzbot report:\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nUnexpected user alpha2: A\ufffd\nWARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 964 at net/wireless/reg.c:442 is_user_regdom_saved net/wireless/reg.c:440 [inline]\nWARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 964 at net/wireless/reg.c:442 restore_alpha2 net/wireless/reg.c:3424 [inline]\nWARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 964 at net/wireless/reg.c:442 restore_regulatory_settings+0x3c0/0x1e50 net/wireless/reg.c:3516\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 964 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5-syzkaller-00044-gc1e939a21eb1 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024\nWorkqueue: events_power_efficient crda_timeout_work\nRIP: 0010:is_user_regdom_saved net/wireless/reg.c:440 [inline]\nRIP: 0010:restore_alpha2 net/wireless/reg.c:3424 [inline]\nRIP: 0010:restore_regulatory_settings+0x3c0/0x1e50 net/wireless/reg.c:3516\n...\nCall Trace:\n<TASK>\ncrda_timeout_work+0x27/0x50 net/wireless/reg.c:542\nprocess_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]\nprocess_scheduled_works+0xa65/0x1850 kernel/workqueue.c:3310\nworker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3391\nkthread+0x2f2/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389\nret_from_fork+0x4d/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147\nret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244\n</TASK>"], "name": "CVE-2025-21910", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10", "fix_state": "Fix deferred", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Fix deferred", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Fix deferred", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2025-04-01T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21910\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21910\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025040130-CVE-2025-21910-1f2f@gregkh/T"], "threat_severity": "Low"}

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