Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 28, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-40066
CVE-2025-40066
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.
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Affected products
4- osv-coords3 versionspkg:linux/kernelpkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source-longterm&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
>= 6.15.0, < 6.17.3+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 6.15.0, < 6.17.3
- (no CPE)range: < 6.17.7-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.16-1.1
Patches
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