CVE-2023-53554

HIGH

Linux kernel - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm

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.

References (8)

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5373a1aa91b2298f9305794b8270cf9896be96b6

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f1c7031e044cb2fba82836d55cc235e2ad619dc

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/663fff29fd613e2b0d30c4138157312ba93c4939

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ae9f55a495077f838bab466411ee6f38574df9b

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9496fb96ddeb740dc6b966f4a7d8dfb8b93921c6

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1b04b56745bc79286c80aa876fabfab1e08ebf1

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/baf420e30364ef9efe3e29a5c0e01e612aebf3fe

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caac4b6c15b66feae4d83f602e1e46f124540202

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0001

EPSS Percentile 1.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-787

Status draft

Affected Products (4)

linux/linux_kernel < 4.14.322

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

Timeline

Published Oct 04, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026