CVE-2025-38406: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath6kl: remove WARN on bad firmware input If the firmware gives bad input, that's nothing to do with the driver's stack at this point etc., so the WARN_ON() doesn't add any value. Additionally, this is one of the top syzbot reports now. Just print a message, and as an added bonus, print the sizes too.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
  • Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.4.296 (fixed in 5.4.296); from 5.5, before 5.10.240 (fixed in 5.10.240); from 5.11, before 5.15.187 (fixed in 5.15.187); from 5.16, before 6.1.144 (fixed in 6.1.144); from 6.2, before 6.6.97 (fixed in 6.6.97); from 6.7, before 6.12.37 (fixed in 6.12.37); …

Published 2025-07-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.