CVE-2025-38316

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38316
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38316.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38316
Downstream
Published
2025-07-10T07:42:23Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:30:12Z
Summary
wifi: mt76: mt7996: avoid NULL pointer dereference in mt7996_set_monitor()
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38316.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
69d54ce7491d046eaae05de7fb2493319a481991
Fixed
83a422c8169eef95aef57f7ddc467bb126d9ae81
Fixed
cb423ddad0f6e6f55b1700422ab777b25597cc83

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38316.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.14.0
Fixed
6.15.3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38316.json"