# 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-2023-53551"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:16:57.736Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:47:09.678Z"
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-2023-53551"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53551.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53551"
title: "usb: gadget: u_serial: Add null pointer check in gserial_resume"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: u_serial: Add null pointer check in gserial_resume\n\nConsider a case where gserial_disconnect has already cleared\ngser-\u003eioport. And if a wakeup interrupt triggers afterwards,\ngserial_resume gets called, which will lead to accessing of\ngser-\u003eioport and thus causing null pointer dereference.Add\na null pointer check to prevent this.\n\nAdded a static spinlock to prevent gser-\u003eioport from becoming\nnull after the newly added check."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"aba3a8d01d623a5efef48ab8e78752d58d4c90c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c5360eec648bd506afa304ae4a71f82e13d41897"},{"version":"aba3a8d01d623a5efef48ab8e78752d58d4c90c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b24c980dc07be4550a9d1450ed7057f882530e5"},{"version":"aba3a8d01d623a5efef48ab8e78752d58d4c90c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec357cd3e8af614855d286dd378725cdc7264df6"},{"version":"aba3a8d01d623a5efef48ab8e78752d58d4c90c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44e004f757a7ae13dfebaadbcfdb1a6f98c10377"},{"version":"aba3a8d01d623a5efef48ab8e78752d58d4c90c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ec63fdbca604568890c577753c6f66c5b3ef0b5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.171","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.2","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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