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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-04 15:16 – Updated: 2025-10-04 15:16
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Title
staging: ks7010: potential buffer overflow in ks_wlan_set_encode_ext()
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.
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Assigner
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux 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)
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    Linux 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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