CVE-2025-38316 (GCVE-0-2025-38316)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-10 07:42 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:25
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Title
wifi: mt76: mt7996: avoid NULL pointer dereference in mt7996_set_monitor()
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991 , < 83a422c8169eef95aef57f7ddc467bb126d9ae81 (git)
Affected: 69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991 , < cb423ddad0f6e6f55b1700422ab777b25597cc83 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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