# 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-2023-54053"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T12:23:02.498Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:54:36.476Z"
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-2023-54053"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54053.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54053"
title: "wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: fix possible NULL pointer dereference"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: iwlwifi: pcie: fix possible NULL pointer dereference\n\nIt is possible that iwl_pci_probe() will fail and free the trans,\nthen afterwards iwl_pci_remove() will be called and crash by trying\nto access trans which is already freed, fix it.\n\niwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected crf-id 0xa5a5a5a2, cnv-id 0xa5a5a5a2\n\t\t      wfpm id 0xa5a5a5a2\niwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Can't find a correct rfid for crf id 0x5a2\n...\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028\n...\nRIP: 0010:iwl_pci_remove+0x12/0x30 [iwlwifi]\npci_device_remove+0x3e/0xb0\ndevice_release_driver_internal+0x103/0x1f0\ndriver_detach+0x4c/0x90\nbus_remove_driver+0x5c/0xd0\ndriver_unregister+0x31/0x50\npci_unregister_driver+0x40/0x90\niwl_pci_unregister_driver+0x15/0x20 [iwlwifi]\n__exit_compat+0x9/0x98 [iwlwifi]\n__x64_sys_delete_module+0x147/0x260"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"809805a820c6445f7a701ded24fdc6bbc841d1e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6f2d16c77f936041b8ac495fceabded4ec6c83c"},{"version":"809805a820c6445f7a701ded24fdc6bbc841d1e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0fc0d287c1e7dcb39a3b9bb0f8679cd68c2156c7"},{"version":"809805a820c6445f7a701ded24fdc6bbc841d1e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7545f21eee1356ec98581125c4dba9c4c0cc7397"},{"version":"809805a820c6445f7a701ded24fdc6bbc841d1e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f9a1bcb94016d3a3c455a77b01f6bb06e15f6eb"},{"version":"809805a820c6445f7a701ded24fdc6bbc841d1e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dcd23aa6cc0ded7950b60ce1badb80b84045c6c0"},{"version":"809805a820c6445f7a701ded24fdc6bbc841d1e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b655b9a9f8467684cfa8906713d33b71ea8c8f54"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4"},{"version":"5.4.244","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.181","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.30","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.3.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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