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    "id": "CVE-2025-38420",
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    "idYear": 2025,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-07-25T14:16:41.479Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T21:27:38.460Z",
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      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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      "title": "wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware\n\nSyzkaller reports [1, 2] crashes caused by an attempts to ping\nthe device which has failed to load firmware. Since such a device\ndoesn't pass 'ieee80211_register_hw()', an internal workqueue\nmanaged by 'ieee80211_queue_work()' is not yet created and an\nattempt to queue work on it causes null-ptr-deref.\n\n[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9a4aec827829942045ff\n[2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0d8afba53e8fb2633217",
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