CVE-2025-38406

CVE-2025-38406: vulnerability in Linux

wifi: ath6kl: remove WARN on bad firmware input

Published · Updated

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 92% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
Linux · Linux
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27d07deea35ae67f2e75913242e25bdb7e1114e5https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/327997afbb5e62532c28c1861ab5534c01969c9ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/347827bd0c5680dac2dd59674616840c4d5154f1https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46b47d4b06fa7f234d93f0f8ac43798feafcff89https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a2afdc5af3b82b601f6a2f0d1c90d5f0bc27aebhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89bd133529a4d2d68287128b357e49adc00ec690https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6c49f0b203a987c306676d241066451b74db1a5https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7417421d89358da071fd2930f91e67c7128fbffhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html