Unchecked Return Value The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELHEADERS-12092058
- published21 Aug 2025
- disclosed19 Aug 2025
Introduced: 19 Aug 2025
CVE-2025-38602 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2389474
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-38602
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e9f85ee3b46453a2f250a57d3a9f10c70c71202
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6663c52608d8d8727bf1911e6d9218069ba1c85e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70a1b527eaea9430b1bd87de59f3b9f6bd225701
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7dd6350307af6521b6240b295c93b7eec4daebe6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90a0d9f339960448a3acc1437a46730f975efd6a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b398120fbe0acfef60b16f6a0f69902d385d7728
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0e43c3f6c0a79381b468574c241065998412b7c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c80832d445653baba5ac80cd2c2637c437ac881b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca980f1911a7144d451d1c31298ab8507c6bd88f
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html