PT-2025-30825 · Linux+6 · Linux Kernel+6

Published 2025-01-01 · Updated 2026-05-26 · CVE-2025-38420

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The Linux kernel contains a flaw where an attempt to ping a device that failed to load firmware can cause a null-pointer dereference. This occurs because the device does not successfully complete the ieee80211 register hw() process, preventing the creation of a necessary workqueue managed by ieee80211 queue work(). Consequently, attempting to queue work on a non-existent workqueue leads to a crash.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

BDU:2025-09137

CVE-2025-38420

DLA-4327-1

DLA-4328-1

DSA-5973-1

ECHO-A873-2BCA-79B5

MGASA-2025-0218

MGASA-2025-0219

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02846-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02853-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02923-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02969-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02996-1

SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1

SUSE-SU-2025:03011-1

SUSE-SU-2025:03023-1

SUSE-SU-2025:20577-1

SUSE-SU-2025:20586-1

SUSE-SU-2025:20601-1

SUSE-SU-2025:20602-1

SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1

SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1

SUSE-SU-2025:21179-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02846-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02853-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02969-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02996-1

SUSE-SU-2025_02997-1

SUSE-SU-2025_03011-1

SUSE-SU-2025_03023-1

USN-7774-1

USN-7774-2

USN-7774-3

USN-7774-4

USN-7774-5

USN-7775-1

USN-7775-2

USN-7775-3

USN-7776-1

USN-7833-1

USN-7833-2

USN-7833-3

USN-7833-4

USN-7834-1

USN-7856-1

USN-8028-1

USN-8028-2

USN-8028-3

USN-8028-4

USN-8028-5

USN-8028-6

USN-8028-7

USN-8028-8

USN-8031-1

USN-8031-2

USN-8031-3

USN-8052-1

USN-8052-2

USN-8074-1

USN-8074-2

USN-8126-1

Affected Products

Astra Linux

Debian

Linuxmint

Linux Kernel

Red Os

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 3312

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38420.json · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40333 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-68222 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-38396 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-38421 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-38576 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-39734 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-22128 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-68183 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-23157 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-38217 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-39795 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-4328-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-39800 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40049 · Vendor Advisory