CVE-2025-38316

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991 < 83a422c8169eef95aef57f7ddc467bb126d9ae81affected
LinuxLinux69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991 < cb423ddad0f6e6f55b1700422ab777b25597cc83affected
LinuxLinux6.14affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.14unaffected
LinuxLinux6.15.3 <= 6.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.16 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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