linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-71229: wifi: rtw88: Fix alignment fault in rtw_core_enable

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Message-ID: <2026021802-CVE-2025-71229-81bd@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:54:00 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-71229: wifi: rtw88: Fix alignment fault in rtw_core_enable_beacon()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

wifi: rtw88: Fix alignment fault in rtw_core_enable_beacon()

rtw_core_enable_beacon() reads 4 bytes from an address that is not a
multiple of 4. This results in a crash on some systems.

Do 1 byte reads/writes instead.

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff8000827e0522
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000096000021
  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x21: alignment fault
Data abort info:
  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000021, ISS2 = 0x00000000
  CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
  GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000005492000
[ffff8000827e0522] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=10000001021d9403, pud=10000001021da403, pmd=100000011061c403, pte=00780000f3200f13
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000021 [#1]  SMP
Modules linked in: [...] rtw88_8822ce rtw88_8822c rtw88_pci rtw88_core [...]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 73 Comm: kworker/u32:2 Tainted: G        W           6.17.9 #1-NixOS VOLUNTARY
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: FriendlyElec NanoPC-T6 LTS (DT)
Workqueue: phy0 rtw_c2h_work [rtw88_core]
pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : rtw_pci_read32+0x18/0x40 [rtw88_pci]
lr : rtw_core_enable_beacon+0xe0/0x148 [rtw88_core]
sp : ffff800080cc3ca0
x29: ffff800080cc3ca0 x28: ffff0001031fc240 x27: ffff000102100828
x26: ffffd2cb7c9b4088 x25: ffff0001031fc2c0 x24: ffff000112fdef00
x23: ffff000112fdef18 x22: ffff000111c29970 x21: 0000000000000001
x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff000111c22040 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffd2cb6507c090
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000007f10 x1 : 0000000000000522 x0 : ffff8000827e0522
Call trace:
 rtw_pci_read32+0x18/0x40 [rtw88_pci] (P)
 rtw_hw_scan_chan_switch+0x124/0x1a8 [rtw88_core]
 rtw_fw_c2h_cmd_handle+0x254/0x290 [rtw88_core]
 rtw_c2h_work+0x50/0x98 [rtw88_core]
 process_one_work+0x178/0x3f8
 worker_thread+0x208/0x418
 kthread+0x120/0x220
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Code: d28fe202 8b020000 f9524400 8b214000 (b9400000)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-71229 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 6.6.125 with commit 71dee092903adb496fe1f357b267d94087b679e0
	Fixed in 6.12.72 with commit 7d31dde1bd8678115329e46dc8d7afb63c176b74
	Fixed in 6.18.11 with commit 13394550441557115bb74f6de9778c165755a7ab
	Fixed in 6.19.1 with commit 653f8b6a091538b084715f259900f62c2ec1c6cf

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-71229
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71dee092903adb496fe1f357b267d94087b679e0
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d31dde1bd8678115329e46dc8d7afb63c176b74
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13394550441557115bb74f6de9778c165755a7ab
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/653f8b6a091538b084715f259900f62c2ec1c6cf
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0177aa828d966117ea30a44f2e1890fdb356118e