CVE-2023-53476

Updated on 01 Oct 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

iw_cxgb4: Fix potential NULL dereference in c4iw_fill_res_cm_id_entry()

This condition needs to match the previous “if (epcp->state == LISTEN) {” exactly to avoid a NULL dereference of either “listen_ep” or “ep”. The problem is that “epcp” has been re-assigned so just testing “if (epcp->state == LISTEN) {” a second time is not sufficient.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+6 more)

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

iw_cxgb4: Fix potential NULL dereference in c4iw_fill_res_cm_id_entry()

This condition needs to match the previous “if (epcp->state == LISTEN) {” exactly to avoid a NULL dereference of either “listen_ep” or “ep”. The problem is that “epcp” has been re-assigned so just testing “if (epcp->state == LISTEN) {” a second time is not sufficient.

Fixes