# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68308"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:02:42.934Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:03:00.803Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68308"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68308.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68308"
title: "wifi: mt76: mt7996: check pointer returned by mt76_connac_get_he_phy_cap()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mt76: mt7996: check pointer returned by mt76_connac_get_he_phy_cap()\n\nmt76_connac_get_he_phy_cap routine can theoretically return NULL so\ncheck cap pointer before dereferencing it."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"98686cd21624c75a043e96812beadddf4f6f48e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4fd85fd2373501b7386e93a5ce4a549d7c4e64e3"},{"version":"98686cd21624c75a043e96812beadddf4f6f48e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b8a079e22ce9fc3c0d05b148ef67e4c6e576678"},{"version":"98686cd21624c75a043e96812beadddf4f6f48e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d14238523ca4c6f5fcb54d1920eb2f8525a7711f"},{"version":"98686cd21624c75a043e96812beadddf4f6f48e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8bc7167e8a86489b7cb96a69cf1fb671d6df014b"},{"version":"98686cd21624c75a043e96812beadddf4f6f48e5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e858cf6bf99880343348ff1e8c942aaff1d9d592"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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