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FKIE_CVE-2025-38604

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-19 17:15 - Updated: 2026-07-30 06:23

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtl818x: Kill URBs before clearing tx status queue In rtl8187_stop() move the call of usb_kill_anchored_urbs() before clearing b_tx_status.queue. This change prevents callbacks from using already freed skb due to anchor was not killed before freeing such skb. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000080 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 6.15.0 #8 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe+0x21/0xc0 [mac80211] Call Trace: <IRQ> rtl8187_tx_cb+0x116/0x150 [rtl8187] __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x9d/0x120 usb_giveback_urb_bh+0xbb/0x140 process_one_work+0x19b/0x3c0 bh_worker+0x1a7/0x210 tasklet_action+0x10/0x30 handle_softirqs+0xf0/0x340 __irq_exit_rcu+0xcd/0xf0 common_interrupt+0x85/0xa0 </IRQ> Tested on RTL8187BvE device. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14ca6952691fa8cc91e7644512e6ff24a595283f	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16d8fd74dbfca0ea58645cd2fca13be10cae3cdd	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7858a95566f4ebf59524666683d2dcdba3fca968	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/789415771422f4fb9f444044f86ecfaec55df1bd	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81cfe34d0630de4e23ae804dcc08fb6f861dc37d	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c767727f331fb9455b0f81daad832b5925688cb	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c51a45ad9070a6d296174fcbe5c466352836c12b	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c73c773b09e313278f9b960303a2809b8440bac6	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e64732ebff9e24258e7326f07adbe2f2b990daf8	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
debian	debian_linux	11.0

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CVE-2025-38604 (GCVE-0-2025-38604)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-19 17:03 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:03

Title

wifi: rtl818x: Kill URBs before clearing tx status queue

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

11 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e64732ebff9e24258…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/789415771422f4fb9…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c73c773b09e313278…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c767727f331fb945…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14ca6952691fa8cc9…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7858a95566f4ebf59…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c51a45ad9070a6d29…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81cfe34d0630de4e2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16d8fd74dbfca0ea5…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f , < e64732ebff9e24258e7326f07adbe2f2b990daf8 (git) Affected: c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f , < 789415771422f4fb9f444044f86ecfaec55df1bd (git) Affected: c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f , < c73c773b09e313278f9b960303a2809b8440bac6 (git) Affected: c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f , < 8c767727f331fb9455b0f81daad832b5925688cb (git) Affected: c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f , < 14ca6952691fa8cc91e7644512e6ff24a595283f (git) Affected: c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f , < 7858a95566f4ebf59524666683d2dcdba3fca968 (git) Affected: c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f , < c51a45ad9070a6d296174fcbe5c466352836c12b (git) Affected: c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f , < 81cfe34d0630de4e23ae804dcc08fb6f861dc37d (git) Affected: c1db52b9d27ee6e15a7136e67e4a21dc916cd07f , < 16d8fd74dbfca0ea58645cd2fca13be10cae3cdd (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 2.6.29 Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.29 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.297 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.241 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.190 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.148 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.102 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.42 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.10 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16.1 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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