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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-21930

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 4/01/2025 12:15:23 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

								
							
							
						
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 iwl_trans_send_cmd+0xba/0xe0 [iwlwifi]
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? __warn+0xca/0x1c0
  ? iwl_trans_send_cmd+0xba/0xe0 [iwlwifi 64fa9ad799a0e0d2ba53d4af93a53ad9a531f8d4]
  iwl_fw_dbg_clear_monitor_buf+0xd7/0x110 [iwlwifi 64fa9ad799a0e0d2ba53d4af93a53ad9a531f8d4]
  _iwl_dbgfs_fw_dbg_clear_write+0xe2/0x120 [iwlmvm 0e8adb18cea92d2c341766bcc10b18699290068a]

Ask whether the firmware is alive before sending a command.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/437e93ecd40754f9e938d524daf52a10c589e2d4
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d73d2c6e3313f0ba60711ab4f4b9044eddca9ca5
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7c31a3f4f27d61b9ccd894a7bf4690f137da0ec