CVE-2023-53589

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 4.1-5.4.243 - Denial of Service via Corrupted MCC Response in iwlwifi

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't trust firmware n_channels If the firmware sends us a corrupted MCC response with n_channels much larger than the command response can be, we might copy far too much (uninitialized) memory and even crash if the n_channels is large enough to make it run out of the one page allocated for the FW response. Fix that by checking the lengths. Doing a < comparison would be sufficient, but the firmware should be doing it correctly, so check more strictly.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (21)
linux/Kernel 4.1.0 - 5.4.244linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.113linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.30linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.181linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.3.4linux
Linux/Linux < 4.1
Linux/Linux 4.1
Linux/Linux 5.10.181 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.113 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.4.244 - 5.4.*
... and 11 more
Published Oct 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026