CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38602
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-08-19
- 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-252
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iwlwifi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue
Add check for the return value of alloc_ordered_workqueue since it may
return NULL pointer.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.24 < 5.4.297)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.241)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.148)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.102)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.42)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.1)
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e9f85ee3b46453a2f250a57d3a9f10c70c71202 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6663c52608d8d8727bf1911e6d9218069ba1c85e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70a1b527eaea9430b1bd87de59f3b9f6bd225701 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7dd6350307af6521b6240b295c93b7eec4daebe6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90a0d9f339960448a3acc1437a46730f975efd6a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b398120fbe0acfef60b16f6a0f69902d385d7728 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0e43c3f6c0a79381b468574c241065998412b7c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c80832d445653baba5ac80cd2c2637c437ac881b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca980f1911a7144d451d1c31298ab8507c6bd88f Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory