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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:wifi: carl9170: do not ping device which has failed to load firmwareSyzkaller reports [1, 2] crashes caused by an attempts to pingthe device which has failed to load firmware. Since such a devicedoesn't pass 'ieee80211_register_hw()', an internal workqueuemanaged by 'ieee80211_queue_work()' is not yet created and anattempt to queue work on it causes null-ptr-deref.[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9a4aec827829942045ff[2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0d8afba53e8fb2633217
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- https://github.com/w4zu/Debian_security