{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2023-53119","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2025-05-02T15:51:43.555Z","datePublished":"2025-05-02T15:55:56.818Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T19:38:52.980Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T19:38:52.980Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfc: pn533: initialize struct pn533_out_arg properly\n\nstruct pn533_out_arg used as a temporary context for out_urb is not\ninitialized properly. Its uninitialized 'phy' field can be dereferenced in\nerror cases inside pn533_out_complete() callback function. It causes the\nfollowing failure:\n\ngeneral protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nCPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc3-next-20230110-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022\nRIP: 0010:pn533_out_complete.cold+0x15/0x44 drivers/nfc/pn533/usb.c:441\nCall Trace:\n <IRQ>\n __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x2b6/0x5c0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1671\n usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x384/0x430 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1754\n dummy_timer+0x1203/0x32d0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1988\n call_timer_fn+0x1da/0x800 kernel/time/timer.c:1700\n expire_timers+0x234/0x330 kernel/time/timer.c:1751\n __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2022 [inline]\n __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1995 [inline]\n run_timer_softirq+0x326/0x910 kernel/time/timer.c:2035\n __do_softirq+0x1fb/0xaf6 kernel/softirq.c:571\n invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:445 [inline]\n __irq_exit_rcu+0x123/0x180 kernel/softirq.c:650\n irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:662\n sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x97/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1107\n\nInitialize the field with the pn533_usb_phy currently used.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller."}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/nfc/pn533/usb.c"],"versions":[{"version":"35529d6b827eedb6bf7e81130e4b7e0aba9e58d2","lessThan":"2bd1ed6d607d7013ed4959e86990a04f028543ef","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"321db5131c92983dac4f3338e8fbb6df214238c0","lessThan":"4c20a07ed26a71a8ccc9c6d935fc181573f5462e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9424d2205fe94a095fb9365ec0c6137f0b394a2b","lessThan":"0f9c1f26d434c32520dfe33326b28c5954bc4299","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"0ca78c99656f5c448567db1e148367aa3b01c80a","lessThan":"2703da78849c47b6b5b4471edb35fc7b7f91dead","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"39ae73e581112cfe27ba50aecb1c891ce57cecb1","lessThan":"2bee84369b76f6c9ef71938069c65a6ebd1a12f7","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"8998db5021a28ad67aa8d627bdb4226e4046ccc4","lessThan":"a97ef110c491b72c138111a595a3a3af56cbc94c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9dab880d675b9d0dd56c6428e4e8352a3339371d","lessThan":"2cbd4213baf7be5d87d183e2032c54003de0790f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9dab880d675b9d0dd56c6428e4e8352a3339371d","lessThan":"484b7059796e3bc1cb527caa61dfc60da649b4f6","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/nfc/pn533/usb.c"],"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"4.14.311","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"4.19.279","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.4.238","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.10.176","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.15.104","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.1.21","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.2.8","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.3","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"4.14.303","versionEndExcluding":"4.14.311"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"4.19.270","versionEndExcluding":"4.19.279"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.4.229","versionEndExcluding":"5.4.238"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.10.164","versionEndExcluding":"5.10.176"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.15.89","versionEndExcluding":"5.15.104"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.1.7","versionEndExcluding":"6.1.21"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.2","versionEndExcluding":"6.2.8"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.2","versionEndExcluding":"6.3"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bd1ed6d607d7013ed4959e86990a04f028543ef"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c20a07ed26a71a8ccc9c6d935fc181573f5462e"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f9c1f26d434c32520dfe33326b28c5954bc4299"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2703da78849c47b6b5b4471edb35fc7b7f91dead"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bee84369b76f6c9ef71938069c65a6ebd1a12f7"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a97ef110c491b72c138111a595a3a3af56cbc94c"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cbd4213baf7be5d87d183e2032c54003de0790f"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/484b7059796e3bc1cb527caa61dfc60da649b4f6"}],"title":"nfc: 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