# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38121"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-03T08:35:27.900Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:21:39.738Z"
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-2025-38121"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38121.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38121"
title: "wifi: iwlwifi: mld: avoid panic on init failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: iwlwifi: mld: avoid panic on init failure\n\nIn case of an error during init, in_hw_restart will be set, but it will\nnever get cleared.\nInstead, we will retry to init again, and then we will act like we are in a\nrestart when we are actually not.\n\nThis causes (among others) to a NULL pointer dereference when canceling\nrx_omi::finished_work, that was not even initialized, because we thought\nthat we are in hw_restart.\n\nSet in_hw_restart to true only if the fw is running, then we know that\nFW was loaded successfully and we are not going to the retry loop."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7391b2a4f7dbb7be7dd763bc87506c10f570a8d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a26ec8e16958b6dd37dac9daf5fb6978fe0cb0b8"},{"version":"7391b2a4f7dbb7be7dd763bc87506c10f570a8d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"960c7e6d388034d219dafffa6da0a5c2ccd5ff30"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.15.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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