# 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-2023-53302"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-16T08:11:33.082Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:42:19.101Z"
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-2023-53302"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53302.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53302"
title: "wifi: iwl4965: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: iwl4965: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue()\n\nAdd the check for the return value of the create_singlethread_workqueue()\nin order to avoid NULL pointer dereference."
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