CVE-2023-53180

wifi: ath12k: Avoid NULL pointer access during management transmit cleanup

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Sep 15, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath12k: Avoid NULL pointer access during management transmit cleanup

Currently 'ar' reference is not added in skb_cb. Though this is generally not used during transmit completion callbacks, on interface removal the remaining idr cleanup callback uses the ar pointer from skb_cb from management txmgmt_idr. Hence fill them during transmit call for proper usage to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 to before 7382d02160ef93c806fe1c1d4ef1fec445266747Affected
  • d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 to before 054b5580a36e435692c203c19abdcb9f7734320eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.3Affected
  • before 6.3Not affected
  • 6.4.7 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5 and laterNot affected

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