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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

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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