CVE-2025-38604

wifi: rtl818x: Kill URBs before clearing tx status queue

published August 19, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: rtl818x: Kill URBs before clearing tx status queue

In rtl8187_stop() move the call of usb_kill_anchored_urbs() before clearing

b_tx_status.queue. This change prevents callbacks from using already freed

skb due to anchor was not killed before freeing such skb.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000080

#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode

#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

PGD 0 P4D 0

Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI

CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 6.15.0 #8 PREEMPT(voluntary)

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015

RIP: 0010:ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe+0x21/0xc0 [mac80211]

Call Trace:

<IRQ>

rtl8187_tx_cb+0x116/0x150 [rtl8187]

__usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x9d/0x120

usb_giveback_urb_bh+0xbb/0x140

process_one_work+0x19b/0x3c0

bh_worker+0x1a7/0x210

tasklet_action+0x10/0x30

handle_softirqs+0xf0/0x340

__irq_exit_rcu+0xcd/0xf0

common_interrupt+0x85/0xa0

</IRQ>

Tested on RTL8187BvE device.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00179 · 7.1th percentile
Published
2025-08-19T17:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 17:03Z
    wifi: rtl818x: Kill URBs before clearing tx status queue
    cvelistv5