CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53302
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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: 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.
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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26e6775f75517ad6844fe5b79bc5f3fa8c22ee61 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f85c768bea2057e3299d19514da9e932c4f92d2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3185d6cfc59277a77bf311dce701b7e25193f66a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/874a85051cc8df8c5b928d8ff172b342cdc5424b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/878a7c8357764e08bc778bcb26127fc12a4b36b7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c002d2741400771171b68dde9af937a4dfa0d1b3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f15ef0ebcf56be1d4a3c9a7a80a1f1f82ab0eaad Patch