{"id":"CVE-2025-38420","summary":"wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmware","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't pass 'ieee80211_register_hw()', an internal workqueue\nmanaged by 'ieee80211_queue_work()' 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","modified":"2026-03-20T12:42:51.044527Z","published":"2025-07-25T14:16:41.479Z","related":["MGASA-2025-0218","MGASA-2025-0219","SUSE-SU-2025:02846-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02853-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02923-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02969-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02996-1","SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1","SUSE-SU-2025:03011-1","SUSE-SU-2025:03023-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20577-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20586-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20601-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20602-1","SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1","SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1","SUSE-SU-2025:21179-1","openSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1"],"database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38420.json","cna_assigner":"Linux"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0140d3d37f0f1759d1fdedd854c7875a86e15f8d"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11ef72b3312752c2ff92f3c1e64912be3228ed36"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15d25307692312cec4b57052da73387f91a2e870"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/301268dbaac8e9013719e162a000202eac8054be"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e9ab5c48ad5153cc908dd29abad0cd2a92951e4"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/527fad1ae32ffa2d4853a1425fe1c8dbb8c9744c"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a3734a6f4c05fd24605148f21fb2066690d61b3"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfeede26e97ce4a15a0b961118de4a0e28c9907a"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38420.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38420"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"e4a668c59080f862af3ecc28b359533027cbe434"},{"fixed":"0140d3d37f0f1759d1fdedd854c7875a86e15f8d"},{"fixed":"8a3734a6f4c05fd24605148f21fb2066690d61b3"},{"fixed":"527fad1ae32ffa2d4853a1425fe1c8dbb8c9744c"},{"fixed":"bfeede26e97ce4a15a0b961118de4a0e28c9907a"},{"fixed":"4e9ab5c48ad5153cc908dd29abad0cd2a92951e4"},{"fixed":"301268dbaac8e9013719e162a000202eac8054be"},{"fixed":"11ef72b3312752c2ff92f3c1e64912be3228ed36"},{"fixed":"15d25307692312cec4b57052da73387f91a2e870"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38420.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}