CVE-2025-38316
kernel: wifi: mt76: mt7996: avoid NULL pointer dereference in mt7996_set_monitor()
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Published · July 10, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
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.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CWE not specified