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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38604" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-08-19T17:03:43.358Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:03:25.920Z" 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-2025-38604" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38604.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38604" title: "wifi: rtl818x: Kill URBs before clearing tx status queue" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: rtl818x: Kill URBs before clearing tx status queue\n\nIn rtl8187_stop() move the call of usb_kill_anchored_urbs() before clearing\nb_tx_status.queue. This change prevents callbacks from using already freed\nskb due to anchor was not killed before freeing such skb.\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000080\n #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n PGD 0 P4D 0\n Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 6.15.0 #8 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015\n RIP: 0010:ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe+0x21/0xc0 [mac80211]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n rtl8187_tx_cb+0x116/0x150 [rtl8187]\n __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x9d/0x120\n usb_giveback_urb_bh+0xbb/0x140\n process_one_work+0x19b/0x3c0\n bh_worker+0x1a7/0x210\n tasklet_action+0x10/0x30\n handle_softirqs+0xf0/0x340\n __irq_exit_rcu+0xcd/0xf0\n common_interrupt+0x85/0xa0\n \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n\nTested on RTL8187BvE device.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e64732ebff9e24258e7326f07adbe2f2b990daf8"},{"version":"c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"789415771422f4fb9f444044f86ecfaec55df1bd"},{"version":"c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c73c773b09e313278f9b960303a2809b8440bac6"},{"version":"c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c767727f331fb9455b0f81daad832b5925688cb"},{"version":"c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14ca6952691fa8cc91e7644512e6ff24a595283f"},{"version":"c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7858a95566f4ebf59524666683d2dcdba3fca968"},{"version":"c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c51a45ad9070a6d296174fcbe5c466352836c12b"},{"version":"c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81cfe34d0630de4e23ae804dcc08fb6f861dc37d"},{"version":"c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16d8fd74dbfca0ea58645cd2fca13be10cae3cdd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.29","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.29"},{"version":"5.4.297","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.241","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.102","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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