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CVE-2025-38420

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

  • Published: Jul 25, 2025
  • Updated: Dec 24, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2025-38420
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
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-rc1 6.16-rc1.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.16-rc2 6.16-rc2.x
debian / debian_linux 11.0 11.0.x