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
References
Configurations
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History
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Information
Published : 2025-07-25 15:15
Updated : 2025-12-23 18:42
NVD link : CVE-2025-38420
Mitre link : CVE-2025-38420
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-38420
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Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
