CVE-2025-38157

Name	CVE-2025-38157
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k_htc: Abort software beacon handling if disabled A malicious USB device can send a WMI_SWBA_EVENTID event from an ath9k_htc-managed device before beaconing has been enabled. This causes a device-by-zero error in the driver, leading to either a crash or an out of bounds read. Prevent this by aborting the handling in ath9k_htc_swba() if beacons are not enabled.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-5973-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.237-1	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.148-1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.147-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.43-1	fixed
	trixie (security)	6.12.41-1	fixed
	forky, sid	6.16.3-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.147-1		DSA-5973-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.12.35-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/ac4e317a95a1092b5da5b9918b7118759342641c (6.16-rc1)