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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-07-10 | Updated 2026-05-11 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991 (git) before 83a422c8169eef95aef57f7ddc467bb126d9ae81
affected

69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991 (git) before cb423ddad0f6e6f55b1700422ab777b25597cc83
affected

Default status
affected

6.14
affected

Any version before 6.14
unaffected

6.15.3 (semver)
unaffected

6.16 (original_commit_for_fix)
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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