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fkie_cve-2023-53540

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-10-04 16:15

Modified

2025-10-06 14:56

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: reject auth/assoc to AP with our address If the AP uses our own address as its MLD address or BSSID, then clearly something's wrong. Reject such connections so we don't try and fail later.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07added2c6cd63de047bc786b39436322abb67c0
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d4e04bf3a0f098bd9033de3a5291810fa14c7a6
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/676a423410131d111a264d29aecbe6aadd57fb22

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: cfg80211: reject auth/assoc to AP with our address\n\nIf the AP uses our own address as its MLD address or BSSID, then\nclearly something\u0027s wrong. Reject such connections so we don\u0027t\ntry and fail later."
    }
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  "id": "CVE-2023-53540",
  "lastModified": "2025-10-06T14:56:21.733",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-10-04T16:15:49.050",
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    }
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}

CVE-2023-53540 (GCVE-0-2023-53540)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-10-04 15:16

Modified

2025-10-04 15:16

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: reject auth/assoc to AP with our address If the AP uses our own address as its MLD address or BSSID, then clearly something's wrong. Reject such connections so we don't try and fail later.

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/676a423410131d111a264d29aecbe6aadd57fb22
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07added2c6cd63de047bc786b39436322abb67c0
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d4e04bf3a0f098bd9033de3a5291810fa14c7a6

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

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

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