CVE-2023-53209
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53209
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53209.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53209
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2025-09-15T14:21:37.415Z
- Modified
- 2026-03-20T12:33:01.171424Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- wifi: mac80211_hwsim: Fix possible NULL dereference
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211_hwsim: Fix possible NULL dereference
In a call to mac80211hwsimselecttxlink() the sta pointer might be NULL, thus need to check that it is not NULL before accessing it.
- Database specific
{ "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53209.json", "cna_assigner": "Linux" }- References
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- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cc80943ef518a1c51a1111e9346d1daf11dd545
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8a20fed3e05b3a6866c5c58855deaf3c217ccd6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0124848c7940aba73492e282506b32a13f2e30e
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53209.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53209
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git