CVE-2024-57989

medium

Published 2025-11-11 · Modified 2025-11-19

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mt76: mt7925: fix NULL deref check in mt7925_change_vif_links In mt7925_change_vif_links() devm_kzalloc() may return NULL but this returned value is not checked.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

Mitigation details

Source: Red Hat Errata — Red Hat Inc. · View original ↗ · Open-Errata-API

Description kernel: wifi: mt76: mt7925: fix NULL deref check in mt7925_change_vif_links CVSS v3: 4.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) Errata / fixed releases ProductPackageAdvisoryReleased Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10kernel-0:6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1RHSA-2025:200952025-11-11T00:00:00Z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9kernel-0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7RHSA-2025:205182025-11-11T00:00:00Z Red Hat…

Description

kernel: wifi: mt76: mt7925: fix NULL deref check in mt7925_change_vif_links

CVSS v3: 4.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Errata / fixed releases

Product	Package	Advisory	Released
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	`kernel-0:6.12.0-124.8.1.el10_1`	RHSA-2025:20095	2025-11-11T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`kernel-0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7`	RHSA-2025:20518	2025-11-11T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`kernel-0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7`	RHSA-2025:20518	2025-11-11T00:00:00Z

Package state

Product	Package	State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	`kernel`	Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`kernel`	Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`kernel-rt`	Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`kernel`	Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`kernel-rt`	Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`kernel-rt`	Will not fix

Apply commands

bash fix

Apply RHSA-2025:20095 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

yum update -y kernel
# or:
dnf upgrade -y kernel

Affected

Vendor	Product	Version
redhat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	`Not affected`
redhat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`Not affected`
redhat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`Not affected`
redhat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`Not affected`
redhat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`Not affected`

OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	`kernel-doc-5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7.noarch.rpm`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`6.12.13-1`
sid	Fixed	`6.12.13-1`
forky	Fixed	`6.12.13-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`0`

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.