CVE-2025-38602

Updated on 19 Aug 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iwlwifi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue

Add check for the return value of alloc_ordered_workqueue since it may return NULL pointer.

Details

Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+15 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iwlwifi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue

Add check for the return value of alloc_ordered_workqueue since it may return NULL pointer.

Fixes