CVE-2023-53180

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

published September 15, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00140 · 3.0th percentile
Published
2025-09-15T14:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:04Z
    wifi: ath12k: Avoid NULL pointer access during management transmit cleanup
    cvelistv5