5.5

CVE-2025-38604

wifi: rtl818x: Kill URBs before clearing tx status queue

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.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 2.6.29 < 5.4.297
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.241
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.190
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.148
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.102
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.42
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.15.10
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.16 < 6.16.1
Debian ≫ Debian Linux Version11.0
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.15% 0.045
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.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14ca6952691fa8cc91e7644512e6ff24a595283f
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16d8fd74dbfca0ea58645cd2fca13be10cae3cdd
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7858a95566f4ebf59524666683d2dcdba3fca968
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81cfe34d0630de4e23ae804dcc08fb6f861dc37d
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c767727f331fb9455b0f81daad832b5925688cb
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c51a45ad9070a6d296174fcbe5c466352836c12b
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/789415771422f4fb9f444044f86ecfaec55df1bd
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c73c773b09e313278f9b960303a2809b8440bac6
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e64732ebff9e24258e7326f07adbe2f2b990daf8
Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory