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fkie_cve-2023-53209

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-09-15 15:15

Modified

2025-09-15 15:22

Severity ?

Summary

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cc80943ef518a1c51a1111e9346d1daf11dd545
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8a20fed3e05b3a6866c5c58855deaf3c217ccd6
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0124848c7940aba73492e282506b32a13f2e30e

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    }
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  "id": "CVE-2023-53209",
  "lastModified": "2025-09-15T15:22:27.090",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-09-15T15:15:47.437",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}

CVE-2023-53209 (GCVE-0-2023-53209)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-09-15 14:21

Modified

2025-09-15 14:21

Severity ?

Summary

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0124848c7940aba73492e282506b32a13f2e30e
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8a20fed3e05b3a6866c5c58855deaf3c217ccd6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cc80943ef518a1c51a1111e9346d1daf11dd545

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2

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