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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53480"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:42:48.919Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:45:48.153Z"
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-2023-53480"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53480.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53480"
title: "kobject: Add sanity check for kset-\u003ekobj.ktype in kset_register()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkobject: Add sanity check for kset-\u003ekobj.ktype in kset_register()\n\nWhen I register a kset in the following way:\n\tstatic struct kset my_kset;\n\tkobject_set_name(&my_kset.kobj, \"my_kset\");\n        ret = kset_register(&my_kset);\n\nA null pointer dereference exception is occurred:\n[ 4453.568337] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at \\\nvirtual address 0000000000000028\n... ...\n[ 4453.810361] Call trace:\n[ 4453.813062]  kobject_get_ownership+0xc/0x34\n[ 4453.817493]  kobject_add_internal+0x98/0x274\n[ 4453.822005]  kset_register+0x5c/0xb4\n[ 4453.825820]  my_kobj_init+0x44/0x1000 [my_kset]\n... ...\n\nBecause I didn't initialize my_kset.kobj.ktype.\n\nAccording to the description in Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst:\n - A ktype is the type of object that embeds a kobject.  Every structure\n   that embeds a kobject needs a corresponding ktype.\n\nSo add sanity check to make sure kset-\u003ekobj.ktype is not NULL."
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