Bug 2379217 (CVE-2025-38316)

Summary: CVE-2025-38316 kernel: wifi: mt76: mt7996: avoid NULL pointer dereference in mt7996_set_monitor()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-10 08:04:09 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-07-11 07:21:58 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025071015-CVE-2025-38316-2087@gregkh/T