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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53049"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-02T15:55:05.568Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:37:34.574Z"
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-2023-53049"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53049.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53049"
title: "usb: ucsi: Fix NULL pointer deref in ucsi_connector_change()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: ucsi: Fix NULL pointer deref in ucsi_connector_change()\n\nWhen ucsi_init() fails, ucsi-\u003econnector is NULL, yet in case of\nucsi_acpi we may still get events which cause the ucs_acpi code to call\nucsi_connector_change(), which then derefs the NULL ucsi-\u003econnector\npointer.\n\nFix this by not setting ucsi-\u003entfy inside ucsi_init() until ucsi_init()\nhas succeeded, so that ucsi_connector_change() ignores the events\nbecause UCSI_ENABLE_NTFY_CONNECTOR_CHANGE is not set in the ntfy mask."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bdc62f2bae8fb0e8e99574de5232f0a3c54a27df","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6adfe9bbd6ac11e398b54ccd99a0f8eea09f3c0"},{"version":"bdc62f2bae8fb0e8e99574de5232f0a3c54a27df","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7dd27aed9c456670b3882877ef17a48195f21693"},{"version":"bdc62f2bae8fb0e8e99574de5232f0a3c54a27df","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c5abcb13491da8c049f20462189c12c753ba978"},{"version":"bdc62f2bae8fb0e8e99574de5232f0a3c54a27df","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ef0423e43f877a328454059d46763043ce3da44"},{"version":"bdc62f2bae8fb0e8e99574de5232f0a3c54a27df","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f87fb985452ab2083967103ac00bfd68fb182764"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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