NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-rt-64k-modules-partner  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-KERNELRT64KMODULESPARTNER-12729242
  • published16 Sept 2025
  • disclosed15 Sept 2025

Introduced: 15 Sep 2025

CVE-2023-53209  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-64k-modules-partner package and not the kernel-rt-64k-modules-partner package as distributed by Centos.

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

wifi: mac80211_hwsim: Fix possible NULL dereference

In a call to mac80211_hwsim_select_tx_link() the sta pointer might be NULL, thus need to check that it is not NULL before accessing it.