CVE-2023-53209

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2025-09-15

Last modified

2026-05-11

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cc80943ef518a1c51a1111e9346d1daf11dd545
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8a20fed3e05b3a6866c5c58855deaf3c217ccd6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0124848c7940aba73492e282506b32a13f2e30e