CVE-2025-40066

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxdd82a9e02c054052b5899872c1f32805428f6131 < 2e671536c1c3c7bcad95d408a4ab42e2e54d1882affected
LinuxLinuxdd82a9e02c054052b5899872c1f32805428f6131 < fe5fffadc6c77c56f122cf1042dc830f59e904bfaffected
LinuxLinux6.15affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.15unaffected
LinuxLinux6.17.3 <= 6.17.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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