vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2023-53209: kernel: wifi: mac80211_hwsim: Fix possible NULL dereference (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Added
Nov 14, 2025
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

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.

Solutions

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