ghsa-8249-rqx5-qf75
Vulnerability from github
Published
2025-07-25 15:30
Modified
2025-11-03 18:31
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 '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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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-38420"
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  "database_specific": {
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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-07-25T15:15:26Z",
    "severity": null
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware\n\nSyzkaller reports [1, 2] crashes caused by an attempts to ping\nthe device which has failed to load firmware. Since such a device\ndoesn\u0027t pass \u0027ieee80211_register_hw()\u0027, an internal workqueue\nmanaged by \u0027ieee80211_queue_work()\u0027 is not yet created and an\nattempt to queue work on it causes null-ptr-deref.\n\n[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9a4aec827829942045ff\n[2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0d8afba53e8fb2633217",
  "id": "GHSA-8249-rqx5-qf75",
  "modified": "2025-11-03T18:31:28Z",
  "published": "2025-07-25T15:30:54Z",
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}


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