CVE-2025-38045 (GCVE-0-2025-38045)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 09:33 – Updated: 2026-10-30 12:21
VLAI
Title
wifi: iwlwifi: fix debug actions order
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: fix debug actions order The order of actions taken for debug was implemented incorrectly. Now we implemented the dump split and do the FW reset only in the middle of the dump (rather than the FW killing itself on error.) As a result, some of the actions taken when applying the config will now crash the device, so we need to fix the order.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f21baf244112e646c6b6c9db94834cf06358db06 , < 49d7587274282fd92a7db6b70dfbc7c973f4f52b (git)
Affected: f21baf244112e646c6b6c9db94834cf06358db06 , < 2b790fe67ed483d86c1aeb8be6735bf792caa7e5 (git)
Affected: f21baf244112e646c6b6c9db94834cf06358db06 , < 181e8b56b74ad3920456dcdc8a361520d9007956 (git)
Affected: f21baf244112e646c6b6c9db94834cf06358db06 , < 328fbc96ecbee16c5fcbfcb3ac57b476f94da2f0 (git)
Affected: f21baf244112e646c6b6c9db94834cf06358db06 , < eb29b4ffafb20281624dcd2cbb768d6f30edf600 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.191 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.93 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.31 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.9 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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