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CVE-2025-38420

wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 before 0140d3d37f0f1759d1fdedd854c7875a86e15f8d; affected e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 before 8a3734a6f4c05fd24605148f21fb2066690d61b3; affected e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 before 527fad1ae32ffa2d4853a1425fe1c8dbb8c9744c; affected e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 before bfeede26e97ce4a15a0b961118de4a0e28c9907a; affected e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 before 4e9ab5c48ad5153cc908dd29abad0cd2a92951e4; affected e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 before 301268dbaac8e9013719e162a000202eac8054be; affected e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 before 11ef72b3312752c2ff92f3c1e64912be3228ed36; affected e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434 before 15d25307692312cec4b57052da73387f91a2e870
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.38; unaffected 0 before 2.6.38; unaffected 5.4.295 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.239 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.186 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.142 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.95 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.35 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.15.4 through 6.15.*; unaffected 6.16 through *

CWE

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References

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CVE

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