CVE-2023-53639 — Race Condition within a Thread in Linux

CWE-366 — Race Condition within a Thread5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.44%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 7

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath6kl: reduce WARN to dev_dbg() in callback The warn is triggered on a known race condition, documented in the code above the test, that is correctly handled. Using WARN() hinders automated testing. Reducing severity.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel3.9 — 4.14.315+7
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.191-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxde2070fc4aa7c0205348010f500f5abce012e67b — f2a429e6da37e32438a9adc250cc176a889c16a4+9
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-c64q-8p7x-8r8g: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath6kl: reduce WARN to dev_dbg() in callback The warn is triggered on a kn↗2025-10-07
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OSV
CVE-2023-53639: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath6kl: reduce WARN to dev_dbg() in callback The warn is triggered on a know↗2025-10-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: wifi: ath6kl: reduce WARN to dev_dbg() in callback↗2025-10-07
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Debian
CVE-2023-53639: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath6k...↗2023
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