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DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38420

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38420 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

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

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13linux0, 0
Debian:11linux-6.16.1.128-1, 6.1.129-1, 6.1.137-1
Debian:14linux0, 0
Debian:12linux6.1.139-1, 6.1.140-1, 6.1.27-1
Debian:11linux5.10.92-2, 5.10.158-1, 0

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Jul 25, 2025 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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