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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38606" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-08-19T17:03:50.189Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:31:28.971Z" 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-2025-38606" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38606.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38606" title: "wifi: ath12k: Avoid accessing uninitialized arvif-\u003ear during beacon miss" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath12k: Avoid accessing uninitialized arvif-\u003ear during beacon miss\n\nDuring beacon miss handling, ath12k driver iterates over active virtual\ninterfaces (vifs) and attempts to access the radio object (ar) via\narvif-\u003edeflink-\u003ear.\n\nHowever, after commit aa80f12f3bed (\"wifi: ath12k: defer vdev creation for\nMLO\"), arvif is linked to a radio only after vdev creation, typically when\na channel is assigned or a scan is requested.\nFor P2P capable devices, a default P2P interface is created by\nwpa_supplicant along with regular station interfaces, these serve as dummy\ninterfaces for P2P-capable stations, lack an associated netdev and initiate\nfrequent scans to discover neighbor p2p devices. When a scan is initiated\non such P2P vifs, driver selects destination radio (ar) based on scan\nfrequency, creates a scan vdev, and attaches arvif to the radio. Once the\nscan completes or is aborted, the scan vdev is deleted, detaching arvif\nfrom the radio and leaving arvif-\u003ear uninitialized.\n\nWhile handling beacon miss for station interfaces, P2P interface is also\nencountered in the vif iteration and ath12k_mac_handle_beacon_miss_iter()\ntries to dereference the uninitialized arvif-\u003edeflink-\u003ear.\n\nFix this by verifying that vdev is created for the arvif before accessing\nits ar during beacon miss handling and similar vif iterator callbacks.\n\n==========================================================================\n wlp6s0: detected beacon loss from AP (missed 7 beacons) - probing\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017]\n\n CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/5 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc1-wt-ath+ #2 PREEMPT(full)\n RIP: 0010:ath12k_mac_handle_beacon_miss_iter+0xb5/0x1a0 [ath12k]\n Call Trace:\n __iterate_interfaces+0x11a/0x410 [mac80211]\n ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic+0x61/0x140 [mac80211]\n ath12k_mac_handle_beacon_miss+0xa1/0xf0 [ath12k]\n ath12k_roam_event+0x393/0x560 [ath12k]\n ath12k_wmi_op_rx+0x1486/0x28c0 [ath12k]\n ath12k_htc_process_trailer.isra.0+0x2fb/0x620 [ath12k]\n ath12k_htc_rx_completion_handler+0x448/0x830 [ath12k]\n ath12k_ce_recv_process_cb+0x549/0x9e0 [ath12k]\n ath12k_ce_per_engine_service+0xbe/0xf0 [ath12k]\n ath12k_pci_ce_workqueue+0x69/0x120 [ath12k]\n process_one_work+0xe3a/0x1430\n\nTested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1\nTested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.1.c5-00284.1-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"aa80f12f3bedc2d73e4cc43554aee44c277cc938","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b861dfc5c07defd0191fd3e7288a3179cd9a02e"},{"version":"aa80f12f3bedc2d73e4cc43554aee44c277cc938","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1259b6da8303f70fef6ed4aef8ae3dedfecb0f27"},{"version":"aa80f12f3bedc2d73e4cc43554aee44c277cc938","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36670b67de18f1e5d34900c5d2ac60a8970c293c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"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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