CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53554

7.8 HIGH Published 2025-10-04 Modified 2026-08-04 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-10-04
Last modified
2026-08-04
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: ks7010: potential buffer overflow in ks_wlan_set_encode_ext() The "exc->key_len" is a u16 that comes from the user. If it's over IW_ENCODING_TOKEN_MAX (64) that could lead to memory corruption.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.12 < 4.14.322) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.291) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.253) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.190) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.124) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.43) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.4.8) • linux linux kernel 6.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References