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CVE-2023-53040 (GCVE-0-2023-53040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 15:54 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:37
VLAI
Title
ca8210: fix mac_len negative array access
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ca8210: fix mac_len negative array access This patch fixes a buffer overflow access of skb->data if ieee802154_hdr_peek_addrs() fails.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ded845a781a578dfb0b5b2c138e5a067aa3b1242 , < 55d836f75778d2e2cafe37e023f9c106400bad4b (git)
Affected: ded845a781a578dfb0b5b2c138e5a067aa3b1242 , < 5da4469a7aa011de614c3e2ae383c35a353a382e (git)
Affected: ded845a781a578dfb0b5b2c138e5a067aa3b1242 , < d2b3bd0d4cadfdb7f3454d2aef9d5d9e8b48aae4 (git)
Affected: ded845a781a578dfb0b5b2c138e5a067aa3b1242 , < 7df72bedbdd1d02bb216e1f6eca0a16900238c4e (git)
Affected: ded845a781a578dfb0b5b2c138e5a067aa3b1242 , < d143e327c97241599c958d1ba9fbaa88c37db721 (git)
Affected: ded845a781a578dfb0b5b2c138e5a067aa3b1242 , < fd176a18db96d574d8c4763708abcec4444a08b6 (git)
Affected: ded845a781a578dfb0b5b2c138e5a067aa3b1242 , < 918944526a386f186dd818ea6b0bcbed75d8c16b (git)
Affected: ded845a781a578dfb0b5b2c138e5a067aa3b1242 , < 6c993779ea1d0cccdb3a5d7d45446dd229e610a3 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.312 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.280 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.240 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.177 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.105 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.22 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.9 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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