CVE-2023-53113

kernel: wifi: nl80211: fix NULL-ptr deref in offchan check

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · May 2, 2025

Updated · July 22, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the cfg80211 module in the Linux kernel. In Access Point (AP) mode, if a wireless link is created by userspace but not yet activated, it may contain an invalid channel definition with no channel. This issue may cause a NULL pointer dereference that results in a denial of service.

Statement

This issue has been fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 and 9.3 via RHSA-2023:7077 [1] and RHSA-2023:6583 [2], respectively.

[1]. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7077

[2]. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6583

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference