CVE-2023-53062

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 4.14.312 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: smsc95xx: Limit packet length to skb->len Packet length retrieved from descriptor may be larger than the actual socket buffer length. In such case the cloned skb passed up the network stack will leak kernel memory contents.

References (8)

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33d1603a38e05886c538129ddfe00bd52d347e7b

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70eb25c6a6cde149affe8a587371a3a8ad295ba0

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/733580e268a53db1cd01f2251419da91866378f6

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba6c40227108f8ee428e42eb0337b48ed3001e65

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3c145a4d24b752c9a1314d5a595014d51471418

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e041bef1adee02999cf24f9a2e15ed452bc363fe

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2111c791d885211714db85f9a06188571c57dd0

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff821092cf02a70c2bccd2d19269f01e29aa52cf

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 19.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-401

Status published

Affected Products (4)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.14.312

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

Timeline

Published May 02, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026