CVE-2025-68738: wifi: mt76: mt7996: fix null pointer deref in mt7996_conf_tx()

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68738DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68738
Published 24-12-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-68738 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Insufficient evidence

No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.20%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 8
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10039-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10301-1USN-8094-1USN-8094-2USN-8094-3USN-8094-4

Timeline

  1. 24-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7996: fix null pointer deref in mt7996_conf_tx() If a link does not have an assigned channel yet, mt7996_vif_link returns NULL. We still need to store the updated queue settings in that case, and apply them later. Move the location of the queue params to within struct mt7996_vif_link.

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.20%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.20% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu107 products
  • linux< 6.17.0-19.19
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.17.0-1009.9
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.17.13-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ c0df2f0caa8dde0d50f36649ee28a54c5079281b, < 96841352aaba7723c20afb3a5356746810ef8198 | ≥ c0df2f0caa8dde0d50f36649ee28a54c5079281b, < b8f34c1c5c4f5130c20e3253c95ba1d844d402b9 | ≥ c0df2f0caa8dde0d50f36649ee28a54c5079281b, < 79277f8ad15ec5f255ed0e1427c7a8a3e94e7f52 | 6.14

3 vendors · 109 products

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