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CVE-2025-38316

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



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.

Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-07-10 | Updated 2025-07-10 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991 before 83a422c8169eef95aef57f7ddc467bb126d9ae81
affected

69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991 before cb423ddad0f6e6f55b1700422ab777b25597cc83
affected

Default status
affected

6.14
affected

Any version before 6.14
unaffected

6.15.3
unaffected

6.16-rc1
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/83a422c8169eef95aef57f7ddc467bb126d9ae81

git.kernel.org/...c/cb423ddad0f6e6f55b1700422ab777b25597cc83

cve.org (CVE-2025-38316)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-38316)

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