Riskcovery

CVE-2025-40066

wifi: mt76: mt7996: Check phy before init msta_link in mt7996_mac_sta_add_links()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 28, 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: Check phy before init msta_link in mt7996_mac_sta_add_links()

In order to avoid a possible NULL pointer dereference in mt7996_mac_sta_init_link routine, move the phy pointer check before running mt7996_mac_sta_init_link() in mt7996_mac_sta_add_links routine.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • dd82a9e02c054052b5899872c1f32805428f6131 to before 2e671536c1c3c7bcad95d408a4ab42e2e54d1882Affected
  • dd82a9e02c054052b5899872c1f32805428f6131 to before fe5fffadc6c77c56f122cf1042dc830f59e904bfAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.15Affected
  • before 6.15Not affected
  • 6.17.3 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18 and laterNot affected

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