CVE-2025-38316 – “Qualcomm MT7996 Wi-Fi NULL Pointer Dereference”

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CVE-2025-38316 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    Jul. 10, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.

    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83a422c8169eef95aef57f7ddc467bb126d9ae81
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb423ddad0f6e6f55b1700422ab777b25597cc83
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