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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2023-53113: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 2, 2025
Added
May 5, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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

wifi: nl80211: fix NULL-ptr deref in offchan check

If, e.g. in AP mode, the link was already created by userspace
but not activated yet, it has a chandef but the chandef isn't
valid and has no channel. Check for this and ignore this link.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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