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FKIE_CVE-2023-53554

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-04 16:15 - Updated: 2026-02-12 15:54

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

URL	Tags
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416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f1c7031e044cb2fba82836d55cc235e2ad619dc	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/663fff29fd613e2b0d30c4138157312ba93c4939	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ae9f55a495077f838bab466411ee6f38574df9b	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9496fb96ddeb740dc6b966f4a7d8dfb8b93921c6	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1b04b56745bc79286c80aa876fabfab1e08ebf1	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/baf420e30364ef9efe3e29a5c0e01e612aebf3fe	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caac4b6c15b66feae4d83f602e1e46f124540202	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.5
linux	linux_kernel	6.5
linux	linux_kernel	6.5

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CVE-2023-53554 (GCVE-0-2023-53554)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-04 15:16 – Updated: 2025-10-04 15:16

Title

staging: ks7010: potential buffer overflow in ks_wlan_set_encode_ext()

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9496fb96ddeb740dc…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/663fff29fd613e2b0…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5373a1aa91b2298f9…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caac4b6c15b66feae…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/baf420e30364ef9ef…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ae9f55a495077f83…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1b04b56745bc7928…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f1c7031e044cb2fb…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 , < 9496fb96ddeb740dc6b966f4a7d8dfb8b93921c6 (git)
Affected: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 , < 663fff29fd613e2b0d30c4138157312ba93c4939 (git)
Affected: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 , < 5373a1aa91b2298f9305794b8270cf9896be96b6 (git)
Affected: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 , < caac4b6c15b66feae4d83f602e1e46f124540202 (git)
Affected: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 , < baf420e30364ef9efe3e29a5c0e01e612aebf3fe (git)
Affected: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 , < 7ae9f55a495077f838bab466411ee6f38574df9b (git)
Affected: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 , < b1b04b56745bc79286c80aa876fabfab1e08ebf1 (git)
Affected: b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1 , < 5f1c7031e044cb2fba82836d55cc235e2ad619dc (git)

Linux

Affected: 4.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.322 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.291 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.253 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.190 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.124 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.43 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.8 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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FKIE_CVE-2023-53554

CVE-2023-53554 (GCVE-0-2023-53554)

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