fkie_nvd - fkie_cve-2025-40066

fkie_cve-2025-40066

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-10-28 12:15

Modified

2025-10-30 15:05

Severity ?

Summary

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e671536c1c3c7bcad95d408a4ab42e2e54d1882
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe5fffadc6c77c56f122cf1042dc830f59e904bf

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mt76: mt7996: Check phy before init msta_link in mt7996_mac_sta_add_links()\n\nIn order to avoid a possible NULL pointer dereference in\nmt7996_mac_sta_init_link routine, move the phy pointer check before\nrunning mt7996_mac_sta_init_link() in mt7996_mac_sta_add_links routine."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2025-40066",
  "lastModified": "2025-10-30T15:05:32.197",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-10-28T12:15:41.060",
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    }
  ],
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}

CVE-2025-40066 (GCVE-0-2025-40066)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-10-28 11:48

Modified

2025-10-28 11:48

Severity ?

Summary

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e671536c1c3c7bcad95d408a4ab42e2e54d1882
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe5fffadc6c77c56f122cf1042dc830f59e904bf

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Version: dd82a9e02c054052b5899872c1f32805428f6131
Version: dd82a9e02c054052b5899872c1f32805428f6131

Version: 6.15

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