CVE-2025-38420

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38420
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38420.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38420
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-07-25T14:16:41.479Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:42:51.044527Z
Summary
wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware
Details

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 'ieee80211registerhw()', an internal workqueue managed by 'ieee80211queuework()' 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

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38420.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434
Fixed
0140d3d37f0f1759d1fdedd854c7875a86e15f8d
Fixed
8a3734a6f4c05fd24605148f21fb2066690d61b3
Fixed
527fad1ae32ffa2d4853a1425fe1c8dbb8c9744c
Fixed
bfeede26e97ce4a15a0b961118de4a0e28c9907a
Fixed
4e9ab5c48ad5153cc908dd29abad0cd2a92951e4
Fixed
301268dbaac8e9013719e162a000202eac8054be
Fixed
11ef72b3312752c2ff92f3c1e64912be3228ed36
Fixed
15d25307692312cec4b57052da73387f91a2e870

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38420.json"