# 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-2023-53648"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:19:45.780Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:49:13.426Z"
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-2023-53648"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53648.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53648"
title: "ALSA: ac97: Fix possible NULL dereference in snd_ac97_mixer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: ac97: Fix possible NULL dereference in snd_ac97_mixer\n\nsmatch error:\nsound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2354 snd_ac97_mixer() error:\nwe previously assumed 'rac97' could be null (see line 2072)\n\nremove redundant assignment, return error if rac97 is NULL."
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