Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 10, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2025-38316

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.

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Linux/Kernelcpe-rescue3 versions
6.14+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: 6.14
- (no CPE)
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.14,<6.15.3
osv-coords
pkg:linux/kernel
Range: >= 6.14.0, < 6.15.3

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