Bug 2389496 (CVE-2025-38604)

Summary: CVE-2025-38604 kernel: wifi: rtl818x: Kill URBs before clearing tx status queue
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-19 18:04:09 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: rtl818x: Kill URBs before clearing tx status queue

In rtl8187_stop() move the call of usb_kill_anchored_urbs() before clearing
b_tx_status.queue. This change prevents callbacks from using already freed
skb due to anchor was not killed before freeing such skb.

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000080
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 6.15.0 #8 PREEMPT(voluntary)
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
 RIP: 0010:ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe+0x21/0xc0 [mac80211]
 Call Trace:
  <IRQ>
  rtl8187_tx_cb+0x116/0x150 [rtl8187]
  __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x9d/0x120
  usb_giveback_urb_bh+0xbb/0x140
  process_one_work+0x19b/0x3c0
  bh_worker+0x1a7/0x210
  tasklet_action+0x10/0x30
  handle_softirqs+0xf0/0x340
  __irq_exit_rcu+0xcd/0xf0
  common_interrupt+0x85/0xa0
  </IRQ>

Tested on RTL8187BvE device.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-08-19 21:54:44 UTC Comment hidden (spam)