CVE-2025-38420
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2025
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware
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
Scoped product and version facts
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.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 | affected | git | 0140d3d37f0f1759d1fdedd854c7875a86e15f8d | Unavailable | None listed |
| e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 | affected | git | 8a3734a6f4c05fd24605148f21fb2066690d61b3 | Unavailable | None listed |
| e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 | affected | git | 527fad1ae32ffa2d4853a1425fe1c8dbb8c9744c | Unavailable | None listed |
| e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 | affected | git | bfeede26e97ce4a15a0b961118de4a0e28c9907a | Unavailable | None listed |
| e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 | affected | git | 4e9ab5c48ad5153cc908dd29abad0cd2a92951e4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 | affected | git | 301268dbaac8e9013719e162a000202eac8054be | Unavailable | None listed |
| e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 | affected | git | 11ef72b3312752c2ff92f3c1e64912be3228ed36 | Unavailable | None listed |
| e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 | affected | git | 15d25307692312cec4b57052da73387f91a2e870 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6.38 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 2.6.38 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.4.295 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.10.239 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.186 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.142 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.95 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.35 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.15.4 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.15.* | None listed |
| 6.16 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |