Bug 2363683 (CVE-2023-53113) - CVE-2023-53113 kernel: wifi: nl80211: fix NULL-ptr deref in offchan check
Summary: CVE-2023-53113 kernel: wifi: nl80211: fix NULL-ptr deref in offchan check
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53113
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2025-05-02 16:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-23 17:08 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-02 16:01:33 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-05 05:19:19 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050228-CVE-2023-53113-a3ff@gregkh/T


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