{"id":"CVE-2025-38646","summary":"wifi: rtw89: avoid NULL dereference when RX problematic packet on unsupported 6 GHz band","details":"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)]","modified":"2026-04-16T04:31:18.417206563Z","published":"2025-08-22T16:00:51.397Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2025:03272-1","SUSE-SU-2025:03290-1","SUSE-SU-2025:03301-1","SUSE-SU-2025:03382-1","SUSE-SU-2025:03602-1","SUSE-SU-2025:03633-1","SUSE-SU-2025:03634-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20653-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20669-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20739-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20756-1","SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1","SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1","SUSE-SU-2025:21179-1","openSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1"],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"Linux","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38646.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b525630729082f026e7030eafccf89e3add7eae"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77a7a48f87d673a68664bebf044214821decbfda"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e04f01bb94fe61c73cc59f0495c3b6c16a83231"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/892b29eab44b1803d2cad8e50f1bc2144ef478cb"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3527ac15a00916e68ecb495b74dbe6a6c62a06f"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38646.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38646"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"c6aa9a9c47252ac7b07ed6d10459027e2f2a2de0"},{"fixed":"892b29eab44b1803d2cad8e50f1bc2144ef478cb"},{"fixed":"77a7a48f87d673a68664bebf044214821decbfda"},{"fixed":"f3527ac15a00916e68ecb495b74dbe6a6c62a06f"},{"fixed":"4b525630729082f026e7030eafccf89e3add7eae"},{"fixed":"7e04f01bb94fe61c73cc59f0495c3b6c16a83231"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38646.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}