vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2025-38121): linux vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jul 3, 2025 | Jul 7, 2025 | Nov 25, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: mld: avoid panic on init failure
In case of an error during init, in_hw_restart will be set, but it will
never get cleared.
Instead, we will retry to init again, and then we will act like we are in a
restart when we are actually not.
This causes (among others) to a NULL pointer dereference when canceling
rx_omi::finished_work, that was not even initialized, because we thought
that we are in hw_restart.
Set in_hw_restart to true only if the fw is running, then we know that
FW was loaded successfully and we are not going to the retry loop.
Solution
References
- CVE-2025-38121
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2025-38121
- CWE-476
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/960c7e6d388034d219dafffa6da0a5c2ccd5ff30
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/960c7e6d388034d219dafffa6da0a5c2ccd5ff30
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a26ec8e16958b6dd37dac9daf5fb6978fe0cb0b8
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38121
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