# 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-2025-38656"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-22T16:00:59.678Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:37:12.525Z"
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-2025-38656"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38656.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38656"
title: "wifi: iwlwifi: Fix error code in iwl_op_mode_dvm_start()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: iwlwifi: Fix error code in iwl_op_mode_dvm_start()\n\nPreserve the error code if iwl_setup_deferred_work() fails.  The current\ncode returns ERR_PTR(0) (which is NULL) on this path.  I believe the\nmissing error code potentially leads to a use after free involving\ndebugfs."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ca980f1911a7144d451d1c31298ab8507c6bd88f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5c432da1ee191e9f7830dd516456706063d7bec3"},{"version":"7dd6350307af6521b6240b295c93b7eec4daebe6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f95598a133a905fd937354ad902773d05593b8b9"},{"version":"c0e43c3f6c0a79381b468574c241065998412b7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"991e2066f6009d3cb898413058c62dbcc92bd6d2"},{"version":"70a1b527eaea9430b1bd87de59f3b9f6bd225701","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1d068272c21d886d06526454b68368100ba0a720"},{"version":"90a0d9f339960448a3acc1437a46730f975efd6a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf80c02a9fdb6c5bc8508beb6a0f6a1294fc32f6"},{"version":"c80832d445653baba5ac80cd2c2637c437ac881b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b398120fbe0acfef60b16f6a0f69902d385d7728","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"2e9f85ee3b46453a2f250a57d3a9f10c70c71202","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6663c52608d8d8727bf1911e6d9218069ba1c85e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.297","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.241","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.190","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.148","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6.102","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.160"},{"version":"6.12.42","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.114"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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