CVE-2025-38316: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.14, before 6.15.3 (fixed in 6.15.3)

Published 2025-07-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.