CVE-2023-53384
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/09/2025
Last modified:
19/09/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
wifi: mwifiex: avoid possible NULL skb pointer dereference<br />
<br />
In &#39;mwifiex_handle_uap_rx_forward()&#39;, always check the value<br />
returned by &#39;skb_copy()&#39; to avoid potential NULL pointer<br />
dereference in &#39;mwifiex_uap_queue_bridged_pkt()&#39;, and drop<br />
original skb in case of copying failure.<br />
<br />
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c57f9ad2c3ed43abb764b0247d610ff7fdb7a00
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/139d285e7695279f030dbb172e2d0245425c86c6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/231086e6a36316b823654f4535653f22d6344420
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35a7a1ce7c7d61664ee54f5239a1f120ab95a87e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e7197e4d6a1bc72a774590d8765909f898be1dc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bef85d58f7709896ed8426560ad117a73a37762f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2509f7c37355e1f0bd5b7087815b845fd383723
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d155c5f64cefacdc6a9a26d40be53ee2903c28ff
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7fd24b8d1bb54c5bcf583139e11a5e651e0263c