CVE-2025-38121 (GCVE-0-2025-38121)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 08:35 – Updated: 2025-07-28 04:12
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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.
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Linux Linux Affected: 7391b2a4f7dbb7be7dd763bc87506c10f570a8d3 , < a26ec8e16958b6dd37dac9daf5fb6978fe0cb0b8 (git)
Affected: 7391b2a4f7dbb7be7dd763bc87506c10f570a8d3 , < 960c7e6d388034d219dafffa6da0a5c2ccd5ff30 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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