CVE-2023-53302

wifi: iwl4965: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue()

Medium · published September 16, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00149 · 3.7th percentile
Published
2025-09-16T08:11Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 SEP 08:11Z
    wifi: iwl4965: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue()
    cvelistv5