Tracker / CVE-2025-38420
CVE-2025-38420
Medium 5.5
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 products and versions
| debian | debian_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel |
| linux | linux_kernel · 2.6.38 → 5.4.295 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.186 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.142 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.239 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.15.4 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.95 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.35 |
Analysis
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