{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38646 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-38646 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 22 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-38646 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-38646 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 22 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38646 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38646/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38646/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-38646","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38646/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-38646","record":{"aliases":["AZL-66650","BELL-CVE-2025-38646","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38646","GHSA-5vg6-qhc8-fjr6","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-38646","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38646","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38646"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel WiFi driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A rare race condition in the rtw89 WiFi driver causes a kernel crash when processing specific packets on unsupported 6 GHz bands.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: rtw89: avoid NULL dereference when RX problematic packet on unsupported 6 GHz band\n\nWith a quite rare chance, RX report might be problematic to make SW think\na packet is received on 6 GHz band even if the chip does not support 6 GHz\nband actually. Since SW won't initialize stuffs for unsupported bands, NULL\ndereference will happen then in the sequence, rtw89_vif_rx_stats_iter() -\u003e\nrtw89_core_cancel_6ghz_probe_tx(). So, add a check to avoid it.\n\nThe following is a crash log for this case.\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000032\n #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n PGD 0 P4D 0\n Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 1 PID: 1907 Comm: irq/131-rtw89_p Tainted: G     U             6.6.56-05896-g89f5fb0eb30b #1 (HASH:1400 4)\n Hardware name: Google Telith/Telith, BIOS Google_Telith.15217.747.0 11/12/2024\n RIP: 0010:rtw89_vif_rx_stats_iter+0xd2/0x310 [rtw89_core]\n Code: 4c 89 7d c8 48 89 55 c0 49 8d 44 24 02 48 89 45 b8 45 31 ff eb 11\n 41 c6 45 3a 01 41 b7 01 4d 8b 6d 00 4d 39 f5 74 42 8b 43 10 \u003c41\u003e 33 45\n 32 0f b7 4b 14 66 41 33 4d 36 0f b7 c9 09 c1 74 d8 4d 85\n RSP: 0018:ffff9f3080138ca0 EFLAGS: 00010246\n RAX: 00000000b8bf5770 RBX: ffff91b5e8c639c0 RCX: 0000000000000011\n RDX: ffff91b582de1be8 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff91b5e8c639e6\n RBP: ffff9f3080138d00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\n R10: ffff91b59de70000 R11: ffffffffc069be50 R12: ffff91b5e8c639e4\n R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff91b5828020b8 R15: 0000000000000000\n FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff91b8efa40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 0000000000000032 CR3: 00000002bf838000 CR4: 0000000000750ee0\n PKRU: 55555554\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cIRQ\u003e\n  ? __die_body+0x68/0xb0\n  ? page_fault_oops+0x379/0x3e0\n  ? exc_page_fault+0x4f/0xa0\n  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n  ? __pfx_rtw89_vif_rx_stats_iter+0x10/0x10 [rtw89_core (HASH:1400 5)]\n  ? rtw89_vif_rx_stats_iter+0xd2/0x310 [rtw89_core (HASH:1400 5)]\n  __iterate_interfaces+0x59/0x110 [mac80211 (HASH:1400 6)]\n  ? __pfx_rtw89_vif_rx_stats_iter+0x10/0x10 [rtw89_core (HASH:1400 5)]\n  ? __pfx_rtw89_vif_rx_stats_iter+0x10/0x10 [rtw89_core (HASH:1400 5)]\n  ieee80211_iterate_active_interfaces_atomic+0x36/0x50 [mac80211 (HASH:1400 6)]\n  rtw89_core_rx_to_mac80211+0xfd/0x1b0 [rtw89_core (HASH:1400 5)]\n  rtw89_core_rx+0x43a/0x980 [rtw89_core (HASH:1400 5)]","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"wifi: rtw89: avoid NULL dereference when RX problematic packet on unsupported 6 GHz band","id":"CVE-2025-38646","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"wifi: rtw89: sar: drop lockdep assertion in rtw89_set_sar_from_acpi","id":"CVE-2025-38647"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"net/mlx5: Check device memory pointer before usage","id":"CVE-2025-38645"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-08-22","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A rare race condition in the rtw89 WiFi driver causes a kernel crash when processing specific packets on unsupported 6 GHz bands.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38646/"}