CVE-2023-53554

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Publication date:

04/10/2025

Last modified:

12/02/2026

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&#39;s over IW_ENCODING_TOKEN_MAX (64) that could lead to memory corruption.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.12 (including)	4.14.322 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.15 (including)	4.19.291 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.253 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.190 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.124 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.43 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.4.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc2::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.5:rc3::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2023-53554

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools