CVE-2023-53554 — Out-of-bounds Write in Linux

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.67%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 4

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel4.12 — 4.14.322+7
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.191-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxb121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 — 9496fb96ddeb740dc6b966f4a7d8dfb8b93921c6+8
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.52-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h7p3-q878-x2pj: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: ks7010: potential buffer overflow in ks_wlan_set_encode_ext() The "exc-↗2025-10-04
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OSV
CVE-2023-53554: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: ks7010: potential buffer overflow in ks_wlan_set_encode_ext() The "exc->k↗2025-10-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: staging: ks7010: potential buffer overflow in ks_wlan_set_encode_ext()↗2025-10-04
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Debian
CVE-2023-53554: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: ks...↗2023
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