5.5

CVE-2025-38420

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
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Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 2.6.38 < 5.4.295
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.239
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.186
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.142
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.95
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.35
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.15.4
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.16 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.16 Updaterc2
Debian ≫ Debian Linux Version11.0
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.04% 0.125
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.