CVE-2023-53992 (GCVE-0-2023-53992)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:55 – Updated: 2025-12-24 10:55
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Title
wifi: cfg80211: ocb: don't leave if not joined
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: ocb: don't leave if not joined If there's no OCB state, don't ask the driver/mac80211 to leave, since that's just confusing. Since set/clear the chandef state, that's a simple check.
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Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < d7b0fe3487d203c04ee1bda91a63bd4dd398c350 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 94332210902967b7d63294b43428c8ed075b20e6 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < abc76cf552e13cfa88a204b362a86b0e08e95228 (git)
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    Linux Linux Unaffected: 6.1.55 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.5 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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