CVE-2025-38316

high

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.

References

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-07-10

Updated: 2025-07-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018