CVE-2023-53229

wifi: mac80211: fix invalid drv_sta_pre_rcu_remove calls for non-uploaded sta

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Sep 15, 2025
Updated: Aug 5, 2026
Reserved: Sep 15, 2025

Description

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

wifi: mac80211: fix invalid drv_sta_pre_rcu_remove calls for non-uploaded sta

Avoid potential data corruption issues caused by uninitialized driver private data structures.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H	Linux
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before db8d32d6b25fdb75c387daee496b96209d477780Affected 6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before 7e68d7c640d41d8a371b8f6c2d2682ea437cbe21Affected 6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before a3593082e0dadf87f17ea4ca9fa0210caaa2aebfAffected 6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before 3fe20515449a80a177526d2ecd13b43f6ee41aebAffected 6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before 30c5a016a37a668c1c07442cf94de6e99ea7417aAffected 6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before 022c8320d9eb7394538bd716fa1a07a5ed92621bAffected 6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before 73752a39e2a6e38eee3ba90ece2ded598ea88006Affected 6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before 12b220a6171faf10638ab683a975cadcf1a352d6Affected
LinuxLinux	3.14Affected before 3.14Not affected 4.14.313 through 4.14.Not affected 4.19.281 through 4.19.Not affected 5.4.241 through 5.4.Not affected 5.10.178 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.107 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.24 through 6.1.Not affected 6.2.11 through 6.2.*Not affected 6.3 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before db8d32d6b25fdb75c387daee496b96209d477780Affected
6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before 7e68d7c640d41d8a371b8f6c2d2682ea437cbe21Affected
6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before a3593082e0dadf87f17ea4ca9fa0210caaa2aebfAffected
6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before 3fe20515449a80a177526d2ecd13b43f6ee41aebAffected
6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before 30c5a016a37a668c1c07442cf94de6e99ea7417aAffected
6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before 022c8320d9eb7394538bd716fa1a07a5ed92621bAffected
6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before 73752a39e2a6e38eee3ba90ece2ded598ea88006Affected
6a9d1b91f34df1935bc0ad98114801a44db0f98c to before 12b220a6171faf10638ab683a975cadcf1a352d6Affected

LinuxLinux

3.14Affected
before 3.14Not affected
4.14.313 through 4.14.*Not affected
4.19.281 through 4.19.*Not affected
5.4.241 through 5.4.*Not affected
5.10.178 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.107 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.24 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.2.11 through 6.2.*Not affected
6.3 and laterNot affected

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