Riskcovery

CVE-2023-53251

wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: fix NULL pointer dereference in iwl_pcie_irq_rx_msix_handler()

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Sep 15, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: fix NULL pointer dereference in iwl_pcie_irq_rx_msix_handler()

rxq can be NULL only when trans_pcie->rxq is NULL and entry->entry is zero. For the case when entry->entry is not equal to 0, rxq won't be NULL even if trans_pcie->rxq is NULL. Modify checker to check for trans_pcie->rxq.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • abc599efa67bb4138536360e07d677052b19e392 to before 3b9de981fe7f1c6e07c7b852421ad69be3d4b6c2Affected
  • abc599efa67bb4138536360e07d677052b19e392 to before 2d690495eb2766d58e25c83676f422219c4fcf18Affected
  • abc599efa67bb4138536360e07d677052b19e392 to before 390e44efcf4d390b5053ad112553155d2d097c73Affected
  • abc599efa67bb4138536360e07d677052b19e392 to before f71d0fc407dd028416bec002ddcc62f5acb0346aAffected
  • abc599efa67bb4138536360e07d677052b19e392 to before 1902f1953b8ba100ee8705cb8a6f1a9795550ecaAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.12Affected
  • before 5.12Not affected
  • 5.15.121 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.39 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.3.13 through 6.3.*Not affected
  • 6.4.4 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5 and laterNot affected

References

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