CVE-2025-38513

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: zd1211rw: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in zd_mac_tx_to_dev() There is a potential NULL pointer dereference in zd_mac_tx_to_dev(). For example, the following is possible: T0 T1 zd_mac_tx_to_dev() /* len == skb_queue_len(q) */ while (len > ZD_MAC_MAX_ACK_WAITERS) { filter_ack() spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags); /* position == skb_queue_len(q) */ for (i=1; i<position; i++) skb = __skb_dequeue(q) if (mac->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) skb = __skb_dequeue(q); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags); skb_dequeue() -> NULL Since there is a small gap between checking skb queue length and skb being unconditionally dequeued in zd_mac_tx_to_dev(), skb_dequeue() can return NULL. Then the pointer is passed to zd_mac_tx_status() where it is dereferenced. In order to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference due to situations like above, check if skb is not NULL before passing it to zd_mac_tx_status(). Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

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References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Other references

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38513
• https://git.kernel.org/linus/74b1ec9f5d627d2bdd5e5b6f3f81c23317657023 (6.16-rc6)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/014c34dc132015c4f918ada4982e952947ac1047
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5420de65efbeb6503bcf1d43451c9df67ad60298
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/602b4eb2f25668de15de69860ec99caf65b3684d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74b1ec9f5d627d2bdd5e5b6f3f81c23317657023
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adf08c96b963c7cd7ec1ee1c0c556228d9bedaae
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b24f65c184540dfb967479320ecf7e8c2e9220dc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c1958270de947604cc6de05fc96dbba256b49cf0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcd9c923b58e86501450b9b442ccc7ce4a8d0fda