Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2025· Updated Jan 14, 2026
wifi: mac80211_hwsim: Fix possible NULL dereference
CVE-2023-53209
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.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 6.1
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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