Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 4, 2025
usb: gadget: u_serial: Add null pointer check in gserial_resume
CVE-2023-53551
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: u_serial: Add null pointer check in gserial_resume
Consider a case where gserial_disconnect has already cleared gser->ioport. And if a wakeup interrupt triggers afterwards, gserial_resume gets called, which will lead to accessing of gser->ioport and thus causing null pointer dereference.Add a null pointer check to prevent this.
Added a static spinlock to prevent gser->ioport from becoming null after the newly added check.
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Affected products
85- osv-coords83 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Patches
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References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b24c980dc07be4550a9d1450ed7057f882530e5mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/44e004f757a7ae13dfebaadbcfdb1a6f98c10377mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ec63fdbca604568890c577753c6f66c5b3ef0b5mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5360eec648bd506afa304ae4a71f82e13d41897mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec357cd3e8af614855d286dd378725cdc7264df6mitre
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