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GHSA-7PRC-J244-3G74

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-15 15:31 – Updated: 2025-12-02 03:31

Details

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

wifi: ath12k: Avoid NULL pointer access during management transmit cleanup

Currently 'ar' reference is not added in skb_cb. Though this is generally not used during transmit completion callbacks, on interface removal the remaining idr cleanup callback uses the ar pointer from skb_cb from management txmgmt_idr. Hence fill them during transmit call for proper usage to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2023-53180 (GCVE-0-2023-53180)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:04 – Updated: 2025-09-16 08:02

Title

wifi: ath12k: Avoid NULL pointer access during management transmit cleanup

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: Avoid NULL pointer access during management transmit cleanup Currently 'ar' reference is not added in skb_cb. Though this is generally not used during transmit completion callbacks, on interface removal the remaining idr cleanup callback uses the ar pointer from skb_cb from management txmgmt_idr. Hence fill them during transmit call for proper usage to avoid NULL pointer dereference. Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7382d02160ef93c80…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/054b5580a36e43569…

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Version

Linux

Affected: d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 , < 7382d02160ef93c806fe1c1d4ef1fec445266747 (git)
Affected: d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2 , < 054b5580a36e435692c203c19abdcb9f7734320e (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.7 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-7PRC-J244-3G74

CVE-2023-53180 (GCVE-0-2023-53180)

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