CVE-2025-38406 wifi: ath6kl: remove WARN on bad firmware input

What is CVE-2025-38406?

CVE-2025-38406 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 25 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-38406?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-38406?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2025-38406 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38406 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-38406, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38406, GHSA-3mgj-ppp2-8gvj, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-38406, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-38406, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-38406 and 2 more.