Riskcovery

CVE-2025-38316

wifi: mt76: mt7996: avoid NULL pointer dereference in mt7996_set_monitor()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 10, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mt76: mt7996: avoid NULL pointer dereference in mt7996_set_monitor()

The function mt7996_set_monitor() dereferences phy before the NULL sanity check.

Fix this to avoid NULL pointer dereference by moving the dereference after the check.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991 to before 83a422c8169eef95aef57f7ddc467bb126d9ae81Affected
  • 69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991 to before cb423ddad0f6e6f55b1700422ab777b25597cc83Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.14Affected
  • before 6.14Not affected
  • 6.15.3 through 6.15.*Not affected
  • 6.16 and laterNot affected

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