CVE-2025-21930

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21930
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21930.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21930
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-04-01T15:41:00Z
Modified
2025-10-15T22:50:22.848149Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't try to talk to a dead firmware
Details

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

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't try to talk to a dead firmware

This fixes:

bad state = 0 WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 702 at drivers/net/wireless/inel/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.c:178 iwltranssendcmd+0xba/0xe0 [iwlwifi] Call Trace: <TASK> ? _warn+0xca/0x1c0 ? iwltranssendcmd+0xba/0xe0 [iwlwifi 64fa9ad799a0e0d2ba53d4af93a53ad9a531f8d4] iwlfwdbgclearmonitorbuf+0xd7/0x110 [iwlwifi 64fa9ad799a0e0d2ba53d4af93a53ad9a531f8d4] iwldbgfsfwdbgclearwrite+0xe2/0x120 [iwlmvm 0e8adb18cea92d2c341766bcc10b18699290068a]

Ask whether the firmware is alive before sending a command.

References

Affected packages

Git / 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
268712dc3b344f3a835211e5846e6ebfd7a13cbd
Fixed
437e93ecd40754f9e938d524daf52a10c589e2d4
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
268712dc3b344f3a835211e5846e6ebfd7a13cbd
Fixed
e7c31a3f4f27d61b9ccd894a7bf4690f137da0ec
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
268712dc3b344f3a835211e5846e6ebfd7a13cbd
Fixed
d73d2c6e3313f0ba60711ab4f4b9044eddca9ca5

Affected versions

v6.*

v6.10
v6.10-rc1
v6.10-rc2
v6.10-rc3
v6.10-rc4
v6.10-rc5
v6.10-rc6
v6.10-rc7
v6.11
v6.11-rc1
v6.11-rc2
v6.11-rc3
v6.11-rc4
v6.11-rc5
v6.11-rc6
v6.11-rc7
v6.12
v6.12-rc1
v6.12-rc2
v6.12-rc3
v6.12-rc4
v6.12-rc5
v6.12-rc6
v6.12-rc7
v6.12.1
v6.12.10
v6.12.11
v6.12.12
v6.12.13
v6.12.14
v6.12.15
v6.12.16
v6.12.17
v6.12.18
v6.12.2
v6.12.3
v6.12.4
v6.12.5
v6.12.6
v6.12.7
v6.12.8
v6.12.9
v6.13
v6.13-rc1
v6.13-rc2
v6.13-rc3
v6.13-rc4
v6.13-rc5
v6.13-rc6
v6.13-rc7
v6.13.1
v6.13.2
v6.13.3
v6.13.4
v6.13.5
v6.13.6
v6.7
v6.7-rc3
v6.7-rc4
v6.7-rc5
v6.7-rc6
v6.7-rc7
v6.7-rc8
v6.8
v6.8-rc1
v6.8-rc2
v6.8-rc3
v6.8-rc4
v6.8-rc5
v6.8-rc6
v6.8-rc7
v6.9
v6.9-rc1
v6.9-rc2
v6.9-rc3
v6.9-rc4
v6.9-rc5
v6.9-rc6
v6.9-rc7

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.8.0
Fixed
6.12.19
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.13.7