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CVE-2025-38604

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Aug 19, 2025Sources checked Nov 10, 2026

5.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2025-38604 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Nov 10, 2026

Vendor remediation details

This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - GPU drivers; - IIO ADC drivers; - Multiple devices driver; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Network drivers; - PCI subsystem; - VFIO drivers; - File systems infrastructure; - F2FS file system; - JFS file system; - Network file system (NFS) server daemon; - OCFS2 file system; - Overlay file system; - Tracing infrastructure; - IUCV driver; (CVE-2021-47633, CVE-2022-49058, CVE-2022-49170, CVE-2023-52784, CVE-2024-53194, CVE-2024-53210, CVE-2024-53214, CVE-2024-56570, CVE-2024-56616, CVE-2024-56763, CVE-2024-56779, CVE-2024-57904, CVE-2025-21664, CVE-2025-38604, CVE-2025-39743, CVE-2026-43456, CVE-2026-74350)

Ubuntu Security Notices guidance

Vendor revision: Nov 10, 2026

Vendor remediation details

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2025-38604?

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.

Source: NVD