| Name | CVE-2025-38121 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux (PTS) | bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.237-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 6.1.137-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.140-1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 6.12.35-1 | fixed | |
| trixie (security) | 6.12.31-1 | fixed | |
| sid | 6.12.37-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux | source | (unstable) | (not affected) |
- linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/960c7e6d388034d219dafffa6da0a5c2ccd5ff30 (6.16-rc1)