CVE-2025-38420

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

published July 25, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00193 · 8.4th percentile
Published
2025-07-25T14:16Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUL 14:16Z
    wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware
    cvelistv5