CVE-2023-53452 — Race Condition in Linux

CWE-362 — Race ConditionCWE-617 — Reachable Assertion5 documents5 sources
Severity
4.7MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.42%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: fix potential race condition between napi_init and napi_enable A race condition can happen if netdev is registered, but NAPI isn't initialized yet, and meanwhile user space starts the netdev that will enable NAPI. Then, it hits BUG_ON(): kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:6423! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 0 PID: 417 Comm: iwd Not tainted 6.2.7-slab-dirty #3 eb0f5a8a9d91 Hardware name: LENOVO 21DL/L…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.16 — 6.1.28+2
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.37-1+2
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxe3ec7017f6a20d12ddd9fe23d345ebb7b8c104dd — 39712c8aeb79691bcec8bd6ff658cde1651e0803+4
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
CVE-2023-53452: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: fix potential race condition between napi_init and napi_enable A race↗2025-10-01
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GHSA
GHSA-77qf-55vf-5v3v: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: fix potential race condition between napi_init and napi_enable A ra↗2025-10-01
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Red Hat
kernel: wifi: rtw89: fix potential race condition between napi_init and napi_enable↗2025-10-01
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Debian
CVE-2023-53452: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89...↗2023
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