{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53452 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-53452 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-53452 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-53452 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53452 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53452/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53452/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-53452","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53452/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-53452","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-53452","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53452","GHSA-77qf-55vf-5v3v","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-53452","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53452"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel WiFi driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel rtw89 WiFi driver can cause a kernel crash when starting the network interface.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":4.7,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-362","name":"Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: rtw89: fix potential race condition between napi_init and napi_enable\n\nA race condition can happen if netdev is registered, but NAPI isn't\ninitialized yet, and meanwhile user space starts the netdev that will\nenable NAPI. Then, it hits BUG_ON():\n\n kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:6423!\n invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 0 PID: 417 Comm: iwd Not tainted 6.2.7-slab-dirty #3 eb0f5a8a9d91\n Hardware name: LENOVO 21DL/LNVNB161216, BIOS JPCN20WW(V1.06) 09/20/2022\n RIP: 0010:napi_enable+0x3f/0x50\n Code: 48 89 c2 48 83 e2 f6 f6 81 89 08 00 00 02 74 0d 48 83 ...\n RSP: 0018:ffffada1414f3548 EFLAGS: 00010246\n RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa01425802080 RCX: 0000000000000000\n RDX: 00000000000002ff RSI: ffffada14e50c614 RDI: ffffa01425808dc0\n RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\n R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000100 R12: ffffa01425808f58\n R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffa01423498940 R15: 0000000000000001\n FS:  00007f5577c0a740(0000) GS:ffffa0169fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 00007f5577a19972 CR3: 0000000125a7a000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0\n PKRU: 55555554\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  rtw89_pci_ops_start+0x1c/0x70 [rtw89_pci 6cbc75429515c181cbc386478d5cfb32ffc5a0f8]\n  rtw89_core_start+0xbe/0x160 [rtw89_core fe07ecb874820b6d778370d4acb6ef8a37847f22]\n  rtw89_ops_start+0x26/0x40 [rtw89_core fe07ecb874820b6d778370d4acb6ef8a37847f22]\n  drv_start+0x42/0x100 [mac80211 c07fa22af8c3cf3f7d7ab3884ca990784d72e2d2]\n  ieee80211_do_open+0x311/0x7d0 [mac80211 c07fa22af8c3cf3f7d7ab3884ca990784d72e2d2]\n  ieee80211_open+0x6a/0x90 [mac80211 c07fa22af8c3cf3f7d7ab3884ca990784d72e2d2]\n  __dev_open+0xe0/0x180\n  __dev_change_flags+0x1da/0x250\n  dev_change_flags+0x26/0x70\n  do_setlink+0x37c/0x12c0\n  ? ep_poll_callback+0x246/0x290\n  ? __nla_validate_parse+0x61/0xd00\n  ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x8f/0xd0\n\nTo fix this, follow Jonas' suggestion to switch the order of these\nfunctions and move register netdev to be the last step of PCI probe.\nAlso, correct the error handling of rtw89_core_register_hw().","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"wifi: rtw89: fix potential race condition between napi_init and napi_enable","id":"CVE-2023-53452","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"drm/radeon: free iio for atombios when driver shutdown","id":"CVE-2023-53453"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"scsi: qla2xxx: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference","id":"CVE-2023-53451"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-10-01","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel rtw89 WiFi driver can cause a kernel crash when starting the network interface.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53452/"}