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CVE-2023-53717 (GCVE-0-2023-53717)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-22 13:23 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:50
VLAI
Title
wifi: ath9k: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds write in ath9k_wmi_rsp_callback()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds write in ath9k_wmi_rsp_callback() Fix a stack-out-of-bounds write that occurs in a WMI response callback function that is called after a timeout occurs in ath9k_wmi_cmd(). The callback writes to wmi->cmd_rsp_buf, a stack-allocated buffer that could no longer be valid when a timeout occurs. Set wmi->last_seq_id to 0 when a timeout occurred. Found by a modified version of syzkaller. BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx Write of size 4 Call Trace: memcpy ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx ath9k_htc_rx_msg ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb __usb_hcd_giveback_urb usb_hcd_giveback_urb dummy_timer call_timer_fn run_timer_softirq __do_softirq irq_exit_rcu sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
Severity
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Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < 89a33c3c847b19b19205cde1d924df2a6c70d8eb (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < ae4933b4f17de8e2b7ff6f91b17d3b0099a6d6bc (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < bf6dc175a2b53098a69db1236d9d53982f4b1bc0 (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < 78b56b0a613a87b61290b95be497fdfe2fe58aa6 (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < 1af7eacfad45149c54893a8a9df9e92ef89f0a90 (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < 8f28513d9520184059530c01a9f928a1b3809d3f (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < 554048a72d7ecfdd58cc1bfb56e0a1864e64e82c (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < 8a2f35b9830692f7a616f2f627f943bc748af13a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.35
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.35 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.308 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.276 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.235 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.173 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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