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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