CVE-2023-53049: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: ucsi: Fix NULL pointer deref in ucsi_connector_change() When ucsi_init() fails, ucsi->connector is NULL, yet in case of ucsi_acpi we may still get events which cause the ucs_acpi code to call ucsi_connector_change(), which then derefs the NULL ucsi->connector pointer. Fix this by not setting ucsi->ntfy inside ucsi_init() until ucsi_init() has succeeded, so that ucsi_connector_change() ignores the events because UCSI_ENABLE_NTFY_CONNECTOR_CHANGE is not set in the ntfy mask.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.5, before 5.10.177 (fixed in 5.10.177); from 5.11, before 5.15.105 (fixed in 5.15.105); from 5.16, before 6.1.22 (fixed in 6.1.22); from 6.2, before 6.2.9 (fixed in 6.2.9); version 6.3 only

Published 2025-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.