CVE-2025-38121
wifi: iwlwifi: mld: avoid panic on init failure
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
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.
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.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2025-04-16 CVE Reserved
- 2025-07-03 CVE Published
- 2025-07-03 CVE Updated
- 2025-07-09 EPSS Updated
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- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
CAPEC
References (3)
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7391b2a4f7dbb7be7dd763bc87506c10f570a8d3 | Vuln. Introduced |
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a26ec8e16958b6dd37dac9daf5fb6978fe0cb0b8 | 2025-06-19 | |
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/960c7e6d388034d219dafffa6da0a5c2ccd5ff30 | 2025-06-04 |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 6.14 < 6.15.3 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 6.14 < 6.15.3" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 6.14 < 6.16-rc1 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 6.14 < 6.16-rc1" | en |
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