CVE-2025-38602 (GCVE-0-2025-38602)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-19 17:03 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:31
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Title
iwlwifi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iwlwifi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue Add check for the return value of alloc_ordered_workqueue since it may return NULL pointer.
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a , < c80832d445653baba5ac80cd2c2637c437ac881b (git)
Affected: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a , < b398120fbe0acfef60b16f6a0f69902d385d7728 (git)
Affected: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a , < 2e9f85ee3b46453a2f250a57d3a9f10c70c71202 (git)
Affected: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a , < 6663c52608d8d8727bf1911e6d9218069ba1c85e (git)
Affected: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a , < ca980f1911a7144d451d1c31298ab8507c6bd88f (git)
Affected: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a , < 7dd6350307af6521b6240b295c93b7eec4daebe6 (git)
Affected: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a , < c0e43c3f6c0a79381b468574c241065998412b7c (git)
Affected: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a , < 70a1b527eaea9430b1bd87de59f3b9f6bd225701 (git)
Affected: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a , < 90a0d9f339960448a3acc1437a46730f975efd6a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.24
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.24 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.297 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.241 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.190 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.148 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.102 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.42 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.10 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.1 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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