# 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-2023-53251"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:46:20.886Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:41:10.094Z"
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-2023-53251"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53251.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53251"
title: "wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: fix NULL pointer dereference in iwl_pcie_irq_rx_msix_handler()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: iwlwifi: pcie: fix NULL pointer dereference in iwl_pcie_irq_rx_msix_handler()\n\nrxq can be NULL only when trans_pcie-\u003erxq is NULL and entry-\u003eentry\nis zero. For the case when entry-\u003eentry is not equal to 0, rxq\nwon't be NULL even if trans_pcie-\u003erxq is NULL. Modify checker to\ncheck for trans_pcie-\u003erxq."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"abc599efa67bb4138536360e07d677052b19e392","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b9de981fe7f1c6e07c7b852421ad69be3d4b6c2"},{"version":"abc599efa67bb4138536360e07d677052b19e392","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2d690495eb2766d58e25c83676f422219c4fcf18"},{"version":"abc599efa67bb4138536360e07d677052b19e392","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"390e44efcf4d390b5053ad112553155d2d097c73"},{"version":"abc599efa67bb4138536360e07d677052b19e392","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f71d0fc407dd028416bec002ddcc62f5acb0346a"},{"version":"abc599efa67bb4138536360e07d677052b19e392","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1902f1953b8ba100ee8705cb8a6f1a9795550eca"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.15.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.3.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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