Riskcovery

CVE-2023-53209

wifi: mac80211_hwsim: Fix possible NULL dereference

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
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: mac80211_hwsim: Fix possible NULL dereference

In a call to mac80211_hwsim_select_tx_link() the sta pointer might be NULL, thus need to check that it is not NULL before accessing it.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 86e74a08fecb59985bb2d5fe3e96dc108822a420 to before d0124848c7940aba73492e282506b32a13f2e30eAffected
  • 86e74a08fecb59985bb2d5fe3e96dc108822a420 to before a8a20fed3e05b3a6866c5c58855deaf3c217ccd6Affected
  • 86e74a08fecb59985bb2d5fe3e96dc108822a420 to before 0cc80943ef518a1c51a1111e9346d1daf11dd545Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.1Affected
  • before 6.1Not affected
  • 6.1.42 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.4.7 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5 and laterNot affected

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