In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: iwl3945: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue

Add the check for the return value of the create_singlethread_workqueue
in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53277
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17e07d6587c55015956862ef3b101fd45fa49fbc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fdeb8b9f29dfd64805bb49475ac7566a3cb06cb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f80b3ff92514ebd227e5c55d3d1e480401b02b7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34f611204ae589bd5c494b10b41fb13436bd3c3f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ae2fc4de12686f3fe695824169c1272c9f798f7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/505c74c4c0b1c5bcaa98a93b3087c268156070f1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e594abc0424e4f8c2385f11aefeaadcfc507aa5