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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 2, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-53113

CVE-2023-53113

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.

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Affected products

6
  • Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy5 versions
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    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 6.0
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=5.19.2,<6.1.21
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • osv-coords
    pkg:linux/kernel
    Range: >= 6.0.0, < 6.1.21

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