CVE-2023-53554

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Aug 4, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
LinuxLinux>= b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1, < 9496fb96ddeb740dc6b966f4a7d8dfb8b93921c6; >= b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1, < 663fff29fd613e2b0d30c4138157312ba93c4939; >= b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1, < 5373a1aa91b2298f9305794b8270cf9896be96b6; >= b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1, < caac4b6c15b66feae4d83f602e1e46f124540202; >= b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1, < baf420e30364ef9efe3e29a5c0e01e612aebf3fe; >= b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1, < 7ae9f55a495077f838bab466411ee6f38574df9b; >= b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1, < b1b04b56745bc79286c80aa876fabfab1e08ebf1; >= b121d84882b97b8668be0b95e9ba50cfd01aa0f1, < 5f1c7031e044cb2fba82836d55cc235e2ad619dc
LinuxLinux4.12

References

Timeline

Published
Oct 4, 2025
Last modified
Aug 4, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2023-53554: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix