CVE-2023-53575 (GCVE-0-2023-53575)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-04 15:17 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:47
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Title
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix potential array out of bounds access
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix potential array out of bounds access Account for IWL_SEC_WEP_KEY_OFFSET when needed while verifying key_len size in iwl_mvm_sec_key_add().
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Linux Linux Affected: 5c75a208c2449c6ea24f07610cc052f6a352246c , < 133b1cd4d98bb8b272335c8e6b0e0c399c0b2ffa (git)
Affected: 5c75a208c2449c6ea24f07610cc052f6a352246c , < 637452360ecde9ac972d19416e9606529576b302 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.7 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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