CVE-2026-64325

wifi: mt76: mt7921/mt7925: fix NULL dereference in CSA beacon

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

wifi: mt76: mt7921/mt7925: fix NULL dereference in CSA beacon

This patch is based on a BUG as reported by Bongani Hlope at https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260502125824.425d7159@bongani-mini.home.org.za/

When a channel-switch announcement (CSA) beacon is received, cfg80211 queues a wiphy work item that eventually calls mt7921_channel_switch_rx_beacon(). If the station disconnects (or the channel context is otherwise torn down) between the time the work is queued and the time it runs, the driver's dev->new_ctx pointer can already have been cleared to NULL. mt7921_channel_switch_rx_beacon() then dereferences new_ctx unconditionally, triggering a NULL pointer dereference at address 0x0:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 RIP: 0010:mt7921_channel_switch_rx_beacon+0x1f/0x100 [mt7921_common]

The same missing guard exists in mt7925_channel_switch_rx_beacon(), which shares the same code pattern introduced by the same commit.

Add an early-return NULL check for dev->new_ctx in both mt7921_channel_switch_rx_beacon() and mt7925_channel_switch_rx_beacon(). When new_ctx is NULL there is no pending channel switch to process, so returning immediately is the correct and safe action.

Oops-Analysis: http://oops.fenrus.org/reports/lkml/20260502125824.425d7159@bongani-mini.home.org.za/report.html

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8aa2f59260eb66fc80378c158922ccb741ccc491 to before d16713c06006669c7162dfab1cedf4cb24429311Affected
  • 8aa2f59260eb66fc80378c158922ccb741ccc491 to before 77e7b127472a191e086e1e0b1b051703f33b1801Affected
  • 8aa2f59260eb66fc80378c158922ccb741ccc491 to before 351dd7d2c80d23e56dcce6faa4e62bea5b0877c7Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.14Affected
  • before 6.14Not affected
  • 6.18.57 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.4 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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