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Vulnerability Details 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
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 1.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
Products affected by CVE-2025-38420


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