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CVE-2023-53822

8.8 · HIGH
Published Dec 9, 2025 EPSS 0.36% (29th pctl)

Overview

CVE-2023-53822 is a high-severity vulnerability. It was published on December 9, 2025 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH).

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8, rated HIGH. It requires local or adjacent network access to exploit. No authentication or special privileges are required for exploitation.

Technical Description

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

wifi: ath11k: Ignore frags from uninitialized peer in dp.

When max virtual ap interfaces are configured in all the bands with

ACS and hostapd restart is done every 60s, a crash is observed at

random times.

In this certain scenario, a fragmented packet is received for

self peer, for which rx_tid and rx_frags are not initialized in

datapath. While handling this fragment, crash is observed as the

rx_frag list is uninitialised and when we walk in

ath11k_dp_rx_h_sort_frags, skb null leads to exception.

To address this, before processing received fragments we check

dp_setup_done flag is set to ensure that peer has completed its

dp peer setup for fragment queue, else ignore processing the

fragments.

Call trace:

ath11k_dp_process_rx_err+0x550/0x1084 [ath11k]

ath11k_dp_service_srng+0x70/0x370 [ath11k]

0xffffffc009693a04

__napi_poll+0x30/0xa4

net_rx_action+0x118/0x270

__do_softirq+0x10c/0x244

irq_exit+0x64/0xb4

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2023-53822?

CVE-2023-53822 is a high-severity vulnerability. It was published on December 9, 2025 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH).

How severe is CVE-2023-53822?

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8, rated HIGH. It requires local or adjacent network access to exploit. No authentication or special privileges are required for exploitation.

How do I fix or remediate CVE-2023-53822?

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

How can CyberStrike help with CVE-2023-53822?

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