CVE-2023-53277 (GCVE-0-2023-53277)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-16 08:11
Modified
2025-09-16 08:11
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a
Version: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a
Version: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a
Version: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a
Version: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a
Version: b481de9ca074528fe8c429604e2777db8b89806a
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