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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 3, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2025-38121

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.

Affected products

4
  • Linux/Kernel3 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.14,<6.15.3
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 6.14
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 6.14.0, < 6.15.3

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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