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CVE-2023-53209

Published: Sep 15, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
86e74a08fecb59985bb2d5fe3e96dc108822a420 - < d0124848c7940aba73492e282506b32a13f2e30e
affected
86e74a08fecb59985bb2d5fe3e96dc108822a420 - < a8a20fed3e05b3a6866c5c58855deaf3c217ccd6
affected
86e74a08fecb59985bb2d5fe3e96dc108822a420 - < 0cc80943ef518a1c51a1111e9346d1daf11dd545

Linux

Linux

affected
6.1
unaffected
0 - < 6.1
unaffected
6.1.42 - <= 6.1.*
unaffected
6.4.7 - <= 6.4.*
unaffected
6.5 - <= *

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