Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2025· Updated Sep 16, 2025
wifi: ath12k: Avoid NULL pointer access during management transmit cleanup
CVE-2023-53180
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath12k: Avoid NULL pointer access during management transmit cleanup
Currently 'ar' reference is not added in skb_cb. Though this is generally not used during transmit completion callbacks, on interface removal the remaining idr cleanup callback uses the ar pointer from skb_cb from management txmgmt_idr. Hence fill them during transmit call for proper usage to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 6.3
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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