# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53005"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-27T16:43:36.547Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:36:45.454Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53005"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53005.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53005"
title: "trace_events_hist: add check for return value of 'create_hist_field'"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntrace_events_hist: add check for return value of 'create_hist_field'\n\nFunction 'create_hist_field' is called recursively at\ntrace_events_hist.c:1954 and can return NULL-value that's why we have\nto check it to avoid null pointer dereference.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"30350d65ac5676c6d08d4fc935bc9a9cb0fd4ed3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d2d1ada58e7cc100b8d7d6b082d19321ba4a700a"},{"version":"30350d65ac5676c6d08d4fc935bc9a9cb0fd4ed3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31b2414abeaa6de0490e85164badc6dcb1bb8ec9"},{"version":"30350d65ac5676c6d08d4fc935bc9a9cb0fd4ed3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"886aa449235f478e262bbd5dcdee6ed6bc202949"},{"version":"30350d65ac5676c6d08d4fc935bc9a9cb0fd4ed3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"592ba7116fa620425725ff0972691f352ba3caf6"},{"version":"30350d65ac5676c6d08d4fc935bc9a9cb0fd4ed3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4e7e81b4fdfcf457daee6b7a61769f62198d840"},{"version":"30350d65ac5676c6d08d4fc935bc9a9cb0fd4ed3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b152e9150d07a885f95e1fd401fc81af202d9a4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.17"},{"version":"4.19.272","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.231","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.166","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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