CVE-2023-53302

wifi: iwl4965: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue()

Published: 9/16/2025 Last updated: 9/16/2025 Reserved: 9/16/2025

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.

CNA assigner: Linux (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (27)

albatross cdrom conf-bpftool conf-libbpf conf-linux-libc-dev core core_unix hvsock mirage-block-unix mm ocaml-probes orun rawlink rawlink-eio rawlink-lwt shell solo5 solo5-bindings-hvt solo5-bindings-spt solo5-cross-aarch64 solo5-kernel-ukvm tracy-client tuntap uring vhd-format vhd-format-lwt xapi-stdext-unix

Products affected (2)

Product	Vendor	Version
Linux	Linux	WCD9335
Linux	Linux	<= 5.4.*

References (7)

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/874a85051cc8df8c5b928d8ff172b342cdc5424b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c002d2741400771171b68dde9af937a4dfa0d1b3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3185d6cfc59277a77bf311dce701b7e25193f66a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f15ef0ebcf56be1d4a3c9a7a80a1f1f82ab0eaad
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f85c768bea2057e3299d19514da9e932c4f92d2
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/878a7c8357764e08bc778bcb26127fc12a4b36b7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26e6775f75517ad6844fe5b79bc5f3fa8c22ee61