CVE-2023-53639

kernel: wifi: ath6kl: reduce WARN to dev_dbg() in callback

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 7, 2025

Updated · July 22, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath6kl: reduce WARN to dev_dbg() in callback

The warn is triggered on a known race condition, documented in the code above the test, that is correctly handled. Using WARN() hinders automated testing. Reducing severity.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 3.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-366 · Race Condition within a Thread