CVE-2025-38420— wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware
Affected Version Matrix 18
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434< 0140d3d37f0f1759d1fdedd854c7875a86e15f8d | affected |
e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434< 8a3734a6f4c05fd24605148f21fb2066690d61b3 | affected | ||
e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434< 527fad1ae32ffa2d4853a1425fe1c8dbb8c9744c | affected | ||
e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434< bfeede26e97ce4a15a0b961118de4a0e28c9907a | affected | ||
e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434< 4e9ab5c48ad5153cc908dd29abad0cd2a92951e4 | affected | ||
e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434< 301268dbaac8e9013719e162a000202eac8054be | affected | ||
e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434< 11ef72b3312752c2ff92f3c1e64912be3228ed36 | affected | ||
e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434< 15d25307692312cec4b57052da73387f91a2e870 | affected | ||
| … +10 more rows | |||
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2025-38420
Vulnerability Information
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Vulnerability Title
wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
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
Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于carl9170 wifi驱动尝试ping加载固件失败的设备，可能导致空指针解引用。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
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Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
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Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Affected Products
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Same Patch Batch · Linux · 2025-07-25 · 114 CVEs total
| CVE-2025-38426 | drm/amdgpu: Add basic validation for RAS header | |
| CVE-2025-38440 | net/mlx5e: Fix race between DIM disable and net_dim() | |
| CVE-2025-38438 | ASoC: SOF: Intel: hda: Use devm_kstrdup() to avoid memleak. | |
| CVE-2025-38437 | ksmbd: fix potential use-after-free in oplock/lease break ack | |
| CVE-2025-38436 | drm/scheduler: signal scheduled fence when kill job | |
| CVE-2025-38435 | riscv: vector: Fix context save/restore with xtheadvector | |
| CVE-2025-38434 | Revert "riscv: Define TASK_SIZE_MAX for __access_ok()" | |
| CVE-2025-38433 | riscv: fix runtime constant support for nommu kernels | |
| CVE-2025-38432 | net: netpoll: Initialize UDP checksum field before checksumming | |
| CVE-2025-38431 | smb: client: fix regression with native SMB symlinks | |
| CVE-2025-38430 | nfsd: nfsd4_spo_must_allow() must check this is a v4 compound request | |
| CVE-2025-38429 | bus: mhi: ep: Update read pointer only after buffer is written | |
| CVE-2025-38428 | Input: ims-pcu - check record size in ims_pcu_flash_firmware() | |
| CVE-2025-38427 | video: screen_info: Relocate framebuffers behind PCI bridges | |
| CVE-2025-38425 | i2c: tegra: check msg length in SMBUS block read | |
| CVE-2025-38413 | virtio-net: xsk: rx: fix the frame's length check | |
| CVE-2025-38416 | NFC: nci: uart: Set tty->disc_data only in success path | |
| CVE-2025-38415 | Squashfs: check return result of sb_min_blocksize | |
| CVE-2025-38414 | wifi: ath12k: fix GCC_GCC_PCIE_HOT_RST definition for WCN7850 | |
| CVE-2025-38417 | ice: fix eswitch code memory leak in reset scenario |
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IV. Related Vulnerabilities
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ptrace: slightly saner 'get_dumpable()' logic - CVE-2026-43490
ksmbd: validate inherited ACE SID length
Same vendor: Linux
- CVE-2026-43492
lib/crypto: mpi: Fix integer underflow in mpi_read_raw_from_ - CVE-2026-43493
crypto: pcrypt - Fix handling of MAY_BACKLOG requests - CVE-2026-43491
net: qrtr: ns: Limit the maximum server registration per nod - CVE-2026-46333
ptrace: slightly saner 'get_dumpable()' logic - CVE-2026-43490
ksmbd: validate inherited ACE SID length
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