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fkie_cve-2025-38316

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-07-10 08:15

Modified

2025-07-10 13:17

Severity ?

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.

References

▶	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83a422c8169eef95aef57f7ddc467bb126d9ae81
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb423ddad0f6e6f55b1700422ab777b25597cc83

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mt76: mt7996: avoid NULL pointer dereference in mt7996_set_monitor()\n\nThe function mt7996_set_monitor() dereferences phy before\nthe NULL sanity check.\n\nFix this to avoid NULL pointer dereference by moving the\ndereference after the check."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: wifi: mt76: mt7996: evitar la desreferencia de punteros nulos en mt7996_set_monitor(). La funci\u00f3n mt7996_set_monitor() desreferencia phy antes de la comprobaci\u00f3n de validez de punteros nulos. Corrija esto para evitar la desreferencia de punteros nulos moviendo la desreferencia despu\u00e9s de la comprobaci\u00f3n."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2025-38316",
  "lastModified": "2025-07-10T13:17:30.017",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-07-10T08:15:30.590",
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    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83a422c8169eef95aef57f7ddc467bb126d9ae81"
    },
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb423ddad0f6e6f55b1700422ab777b25597cc83"
    }
  ],
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}

CVE-2025-38316 (GCVE-0-2025-38316)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-07-10 07:42

Modified

2025-07-28 04:18

Severity ?

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.

References

►

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83a422c8169eef95aef57f7ddc467bb126d9ae81
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb423ddad0f6e6f55b1700422ab777b25597cc83

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

►

Version: 69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991
Version: 69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991

Version: 6.14

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