CVE-2023-53113

high

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f624bb6fad23df3270580b4fcef415c6e7bf7705

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87e80ea4fbc9ce2f2005905fdbcd38baaa47463a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/201a836c2385fdd2b9d0a8e7737bba5b26f1863a

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-05-02

Updated: 2025-05-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017