CVE-2023-53589
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 4.1-5.4.243 - Denial of Service via Corrupted MCC Response in iwlwifi
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
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