CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53277

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-09-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-09-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwl3945: 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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.24 < 4.19.276) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.235) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.173) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.99) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.16) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References