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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-37794" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-01T13:07:26.168Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:15:18.481Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37794" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37794.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37794" title: "wifi: mac80211: Purge vif txq in ieee80211_do_stop()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mac80211: Purge vif txq in ieee80211_do_stop()\n\nAfter ieee80211_do_stop() SKB from vif's txq could still be processed.\nIndeed another concurrent vif schedule_and_wake_txq call could cause\nthose packets to be dequeued (see ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue())\nwithout checking the sdata current state.\n\nBecause vif.drv_priv is now cleared in this function, this could lead to\ndriver crash.\n\nFor example in ath12k, ahvif is store in vif.drv_priv. Thus if\nath12k_mac_op_tx() is called after ieee80211_do_stop(), ahvif-\u003eah can be\nNULL, leading the ath12k_warn(ahvif-\u003eah,...) call in this function to\ntrigger the NULL deref below.\n\n Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfffffc000000001\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]\n batman_adv: bat0: Interface deactivated: brbh1337\n Mem abort info:\n ESR = 0x0000000096000004\n EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits\n SET = 0, FnV = 0\n EA = 0, S1PTW = 0\n FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault\n Data abort info:\n ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000\n CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0\n GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0\n [dfffffc000000001] address between user and kernel address ranges\n Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] SMP\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 978 Comm: lbd Not tainted 6.13.0-g633f875b8f1e #114\n Hardware name: HW (DT)\n pstate: 10000005 (nzcV daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n pc : ath12k_mac_op_tx+0x6cc/0x29b8 [ath12k]\n lr : ath12k_mac_op_tx+0x174/0x29b8 [ath12k]\n sp : ffffffc086ace450\n x29: ffffffc086ace450 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 1ffffff810d59ca4\n x26: ffffff801d05f7c0 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 000000004000001e\n x23: ffffff8009ce4926 x22: ffffff801f9c0800 x21: ffffff801d05f7f0\n x20: ffffff8034a19f40 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffffff801f9c0958\n x17: ffffff800bc0a504 x16: dfffffc000000000 x15: ffffffc086ace4f8\n x14: ffffff801d05f83c x13: 0000000000000000 x12: ffffffb003a0bf03\n x11: 0000000000000000 x10: ffffffb003a0bf02 x9 : ffffff8034a19f40\n x8 : ffffff801d05f818 x7 : 1ffffff0069433dc x6 : ffffff8034a19ee0\n x5 : ffffff801d05f7f0 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000001\n x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : dfffffc000000000 x0 : 0000000000000008\n Call trace:\n ath12k_mac_op_tx+0x6cc/0x29b8 [ath12k] (P)\n ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue+0x16c/0x260\n ieee80211_queue_skb+0xeec/0x1d20\n ieee80211_tx+0x200/0x2c8\n ieee80211_xmit+0x22c/0x338\n __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x7e8/0xc60\n ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0xc4/0xee0\n __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit_8023.isra.0+0x854/0x17a0\n ieee80211_subif_start_xmit_8023+0x124/0x488\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x160/0x5a8\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x6f8/0x3120\n br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0x120/0x4a8\n __br_forward+0xe4/0x2b0\n deliver_clone+0x5c/0xd0\n br_flood+0x398/0x580\n br_dev_xmit+0x454/0x9f8\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x160/0x5a8\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x6f8/0x3120\n ip6_finish_output2+0xc28/0x1b60\n __ip6_finish_output+0x38c/0x638\n ip6_output+0x1b4/0x338\n ip6_local_out+0x7c/0xa8\n ip6_send_skb+0x7c/0x1b0\n ip6_push_pending_frames+0x94/0xd0\n rawv6_sendmsg+0x1a98/0x2898\n inet_sendmsg+0x94/0xe0\n __sys_sendto+0x1e4/0x308\n __arm64_sys_sendto+0xc4/0x140\n do_el0_svc+0x110/0x280\n el0_svc+0x20/0x60\n el0t_64_sync_handler+0x104/0x138\n el0t_64_sync+0x154/0x158\n\nTo avoid that, empty vif's txq at ieee80211_do_stop() so no packet could\nbe dequeued after ieee80211_do_stop() (new packets cannot be queued\nbecause SDATA_STATE_RUNNING is cleared at this point)." affected: 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