CVE-2025-40066

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe5fffadc6c77c56f122cf1042dc830f59e904bf

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e671536c1c3c7bcad95d408a4ab42e2e54d1882

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-28

Updated: 2025-10-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018