CVE-2023-53209

high

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0124848c7940aba73492e282506b32a13f2e30e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8a20fed3e05b3a6866c5c58855deaf3c217ccd6

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cc80943ef518a1c51a1111e9346d1daf11dd545

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-15

Updated: 2025-09-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017