CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-38420

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-07-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-07-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware Syzkaller reports [1, 2] crashes caused by an attempts to ping the device which has failed to load firmware. Since such a device doesn't pass 'ieee80211_register_hw()', an internal workqueue managed by 'ieee80211_queue_work()' is not yet created and an attempt to queue work on it causes null-ptr-deref. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9a4aec827829942045ff [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0d8afba53e8fb2633217

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.38 < 5.4.295) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.239) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.186) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.142) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.95) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.35) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.4) • linux linux kernel 6.16 • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References