CVE-2025-38420

{"id": "CVE-2025-38420", "cveTags": [], "metrics": {}, "published": "2025-07-25T15:15:26.793", "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0140d3d37f0f1759d1fdedd854c7875a86e15f8d", "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11ef72b3312752c2ff92f3c1e64912be3228ed36", "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15d25307692312cec4b57052da73387f91a2e870", "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/301268dbaac8e9013719e162a000202eac8054be", "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e9ab5c48ad5153cc908dd29abad0cd2a92951e4", "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/527fad1ae32ffa2d4853a1425fe1c8dbb8c9744c", "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a3734a6f4c05fd24605148f21fb2066690d61b3", "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfeede26e97ce4a15a0b961118de4a0e28c9907a", "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}], "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis", "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "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"}], "lastModified": "2025-07-25T15:29:19.837", "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}