CVE-2023-53302 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 16

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwl4965: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue() Add the check for the return value of the create_singlethread_workqueue() in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

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_kernel2.6.24 — 4.19.276+5
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.178-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxb481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a — 874a85051cc8df8c5b928d8ff172b342cdc5424b+7
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.20-1 (bookworm)

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2023-53302: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwl4965: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue() Add the check↗2025-09-16
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GHSA
GHSA-xhxp-853r-966x: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwl4965: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue() Add the che↗2025-09-16
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: wifi: iwl4965: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue()↗2025-09-16
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Debian
CVE-2023-53302: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwl49...↗2023
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