CVE-2023-53554 (GCVE-0-2023-53554)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-04 15:16
Modified
2025-10-04 15:16
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 Version: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 Version: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 Version: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 Version: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 Version: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 Version: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 Version: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 |
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