CVE-2025-38420

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

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-38420 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-38420.

URL	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0140d3d37f0f1759d1fdedd854c7875a86e15f8d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11ef72b3312752c2ff92f3c1e64912be3228ed36
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15d25307692312cec4b57052da73387f91a2e870
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/301268dbaac8e9013719e162a000202eac8054be
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e9ab5c48ad5153cc908dd29abad0cd2a92951e4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/527fad1ae32ffa2d4853a1425fe1c8dbb8c9744c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a3734a6f4c05fd24605148f21fb2066690d61b3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfeede26e97ce4a15a0b961118de4a0e28c9907a
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025072552-CVE-2025-38420-13a5@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38420
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38420