CVE-2025-38406

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Malformed Firmware Input in ath6kl WiFi Driver

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath6kl: remove WARN on bad firmware input If the firmware gives bad input, that's nothing to do with the driver's stack at this point etc., so the WARN_ON() doesn't add any value. Additionally, this is one of the top syzbot reports now. Just print a message, and as an added bonus, print the sizes too.

References (10)

Core 10
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 16.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (28)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 3.2.0 - 5.4.296linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.187linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.144linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.240linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.6linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.97linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.37linux
Linux/Linux < 3.2
Linux/Linux 3.2
... and 18 more
Published Jul 25, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026